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Minoru Shirota

Minoru Shirota
Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982)

Minoru Shirota was a Japanese microbiologist. In the 1930 Shirota identified a strain of lactic acid bacteria that is part of normal gut flora that he originally called Lactobacillus casei Shirota, which appeared to help contain the growth of harmful bacteria in the gut. The strain was later reclassified as Lactobacillus paracasei Shirota.

23 April 1899

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