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Bioreactor Assembly for Continuous Culture of Complex Fecal Communities
Published on: April 25, 2025
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18th International Scientific Conference on Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut Microbiota, and Health-IPC2025 on June 24-26,
Svetoslav Dimitrov Todorov1,2, Arthur C Ouwehand3
1ProBacLab, Laboratório de Microbiologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição Experimental, FoRC, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
|May 20, 2025
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