A review of rifaximin and bacterial overgrowth in poorly responsive celiac disease
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A review of rifaximin and bacterial overgrowth in poorly responsive celiac disease.
A proportion of patients with celiac disease have a poor response to a gluten-free diet, which may be due to small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Treatment with rifaximin is often used in the clinical setting, but there is limited literature to support this practice. In addition, challenges in the diagnosis of SIBO confound response interpretation. Our recent placebo-controlled trial d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1756-2848,1756-2848
DOI: 10.1177/1756283x11422264