On the Gut Zoomer, which gut commensal bacteria are included in the SIBO Summary Score?

  1. Acinetobacter⁻
  2. Bacteroidetes-
  3. Clostridium+
  4. Enterococcus species+
  5. Escherichia coli⁻
  6. Staphylococcus species+
  7. Streptococcus+ 
  8. Methanobrevibacter smithii

* A negative sign (-) following the genus or species name indicates gram negative bacteria (which produce inflammatory lipopolysaccharide), whereas a positive sign indicates gram positive status.

* Methanobrevibacter smithii is an archaeon, not a bacterium, and therefore does not have a gram status.

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