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World Service,07 Feb 1995,13 mins

The Discovery Of Lactobacillus

Health Matters

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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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