Affiliation:
1. Chair of Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology, Microbial Ecology and Parasitology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-121 Kraków, Poland
Abstract
Since 1987, when Professor Sherwood Gorbach discovered, characterized, and commercialized the first probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, a total of over 17,000 publications have been indexed in PubMed under “probiotic” and “health”, which is an extensive amount of research on the specific bacteria and yeasts defined as “live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, exert a health benefit on the host” [...]