Probiotics and immunity: presumption of beneficial interaction
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2 According to the immunologist Eduardo Schiffrin from Switzerland, intestinal microflora can be considered to be an organ in its own right. In fact, intestinal microflora, made of a wide variety of bacteria, is capable, like an organ, of accomplishing important functions that can be modulated by environmental factors such as nutrition. This organ has the special feature of being acquired after birth since mammals are born without microflora.
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