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Original Article

Glucose breath test and Crohn’s disease: Diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and evaluation of therapeutic response

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Pages 1376-1381 | Received 08 Feb 2015, Accepted 04 May 2015, Published online: 27 May 2015

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