New insights into the fecal microbiota of children living in a slum: association with small bowel bacterial overgrowth.

The study by Mello et al. from the group of Dr. Mauro Batista de Morais provides additional information on the impact of living in a slum on small bowel bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), as well as some nutritional and anthropometric parameters, and adds new data on the fecal microbiota composition. Using real time-PCR technique, the authors compared the composition of the fecal microbiota of children with or without SIBO and presence of stunting and hemoglobin status and anemia. At total of 100 children, aged between 5 and 11 years, who lived in a slum in the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, were studied. SIBO was diagnosed by means