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Portal:Digestive system/Selected article/3
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is an excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine which in contrast to the large intestine in healthy individuals contains relatively small populations of bacteria. There is some evidence of high rates of SIBO among ME/CFS and fibromyalgia patients. (more...)