Microorganisms (Feb 2024)

Editorial for Special Issue “Effects of Probiotics on Health”

  • Piotr Heczko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12030442
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
p. 442

Abstract

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Since 1987, when Professor Sherwood Gorbach discovered, characterized, and commercialized the first probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, a total of over 17,000 publications have been indexed in PubMed under “probiotic” and “health”, which is an extensive amount of research on the specific bacteria and yeasts defined as “live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, exert a health benefit on the host” [...]

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