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What drugs work best for small bowl bacterial overgrowth?
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Lots of options...: Many different antibiotics will work, but Ciprofloxacin and Metronidazole is one common regimen, usually for 2 weeks. This article is a few years old but still pretty relevant... http://www.med.upenn.edu/gastro/documents/gastroenterologybacterialovergrowth.pdf.
Answered 6/28/2014
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