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Google Doodle celebrates 142nd birth anniversary of the man who discovered Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum

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Google Doodle is marking the birth anniversary of Dr. Stamen Grigorov – the Bulgarian microbiologist and doctor who discovered Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum, the bacterium essential to the fermentation of yogurt, which is to be found in nature in Bulgaria as a free element. 

The bacterium was first described in 1905 by Bulgarian university student Stamen Grigorov in a report delivered at Pasteur institute in Paris. Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum is what makes  yogurt  a natural probiotic with a wholesome effect on human health.

One of the world’s first probiotics was developed by Prof. Nikola Alexandrov in the 1980s in Bulgaria on the basis of Lacto bacterium Bulgaricum.



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