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RESEARCH ARTICLE High Prevalence of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients with Morbid Obesity: A Contributor to Severe Hepatic Steatosis Jean-Marc Sabaté Pauline Jou?t Florence Harnois Charlotte Mechler Simon Msika Maggy Grossin Beno?t Coffin Received: 30 November 2007 /Accepted: 7 December 2007 / Published online: 20 February 2008 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007 Abstract Background With the increasing prevalence of obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become a major cause of liver diseases. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) could be