Variations in bacterial genera in the small bowel of those spanning normal weight to obesity suggest a correlation between ...

Patients with jejunostomy after extensive small-bowel resection have major problems ... are unusual and a net loss occurs only if <50 cm of jejunum is present. [4] Hypokalemia was not present ...

They are then swallowed and mature into adult worms in the small bowel, particularly the jejunum. Adult hookworms are 5 mm to 13 mm in length and produce between 5000 and 25 000 eggs per day.

Two, whose small-intestine aspirates did not contain mycoflora ... This organism was also present in the repeat studies of the jejunum and ileum, in equivalent concentrations.