Probiotics: Health benefits, efficacy, and safety

Biotechnology in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 485-496

  Shah, Nagendra P ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS;

ANTIMUTAGENIC; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS; HEALTH BENEFITS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; PROBIOTICS; SERUM CHOLESTEROL;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 85054400075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420087123     Document Type: Chapter

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