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The Discovery Of Lactobacillus

Hands and gloves, fingernail analysis and treating childhood diarrhoea

Hands and gloves, fingernail analysis and treating childhood diarrhoea. How the discovery of the bacteria lactobacillus is helping prevent diarrhoea when added to the milk formula of infants. Also in the programme why fingernails are being used by doctors to assess a patient's health and how an allergy to latex could prove to be deadly.

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14 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project