Probiotics and COVID-19 - Authors' reply.

Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol

Center for Gut Microbiota Research, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Electronic address:

Published: August 2020

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