The role of probiotics in COVID-19 treatment: Gut microbiota can help physicians in the outbreak

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Mustafa Şahin. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;31(10):724-725.

doi: 10.5152/tjg.2020.20338.

¹ Department of Medical Biochemistry, Hitit University, Erol Olçok Training and Research Hospital, Çorum, Turkey.

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