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. 2019 May 21:10:1047.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01047. eCollection 2019.

Emerging Health Concepts in the Probiotics Field: Streamlining the Definitions

Rebeca Martín  1 , Philippe Langella  1
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Emerging Health Concepts in the Probiotics Field: Streamlining the Definitions

Rebeca Martín et al. Front Microbiol. .
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Keywords: live biotherapeutics; next-generation probiotics; prebiotics; probiotics; synbiotics.

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(A) Timeline of selected items in the history of probiotic related terms; (B) Scheme of the main terms related to probiotic field.
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