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News from the department of Phytotherapy

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Microbiological therapy

Microbiological therapy History In 1908, Nobel Prize laureate Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov described a life-prolonging effect resulting from the microorganisms found in fermented dairy products. In 1965, Daniel M. Lilly and Rosalie H. Stillwell coined the term “probiotic” as the antonym of “antibiotic.”...

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