Diversity, vitality and activities of intestinal lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria assessed by molecular approaches.

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While lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria have been scientifically important for over a century, many of these are marketed today as probiotics and have become a valuable and rapidly expanding sector of the food market that is leading functional foods in many countries. The human gastro-intestinal tract with its various compartments and complex microbiota is the primary target of most of these functional...

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