New Insights on Antiviral Probiotics From Research to Applications
This book focuses on probiotics with antiviral activities. The "antiviral probiotic" is a new concept in medical sciences. Recently, studies have shown that antiviral probiotics can fight or prevent viral infections in many ways. The immunomodulation of m
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New Insights on Antiviral Probiotics From Research to Applications
New Insights on Antiviral Probiotics
Imad Al Kassaa
New Insights on Antiviral Probiotics From Research to Applications
Imad AL KASSAA Laboratoire de Microbiologie Environnement et Santé (LMSE) Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology/Faculty of Public Health Lebanese University Tripoli, Lebanon
ISBN 978-3-319-49687-0 ISBN 978-3-319-49688-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49688-7
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I would like to thank all the authors who took part in the success of this book, mainly Dr. Mohammad-Bachar ISMAIL and the promising M. Mazen ZAYLAA who works in Pasteur Institute in Lille on the probiotics effects on Crohn’s disease. I would like also to thank my leader Pr. Monzer HAMZEH for the great support he presented and for his patience throughout my scientific career. Great thanks go as well to my sincere friend Pr. Fouad DABBOUSSI. Finally, I would like to thank my wife Hawa DHAYBI for her patience and for the calm ambiance she created to help me writing this book. Tala, Omar and Ali, my dear children, thank you for tolerating my long absence. I would like also to thank Dr. Khaled EL OMARI and Ms Yemen SAYOUR for their support.
Foreword
In 1908, Elie Metchnikoff, a Russian researcher who was a Nobel laureate and professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discovered that the lifespan of Bulgarian people was related to the consumption of fermented milk containing lactic acid bacteria. In 1900, Henry Tissier, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, isolated a bacterial strain from a breastfed child belonging to the Bifidobacterium genus, which he ca
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