PEDIATRICS Vol. 73 No. 3 March 1984, pp. 415
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Intestinal Flora Rediscovered

LEWIS A. BARNESS MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, 12901 N 30th St, Tampa, FL 33612

To the Editor.—

The article by Yoshioka et al on intestinal flora in neonates1 is important not only for the information it contains, but also for the admonishment that man is mortal and fame is fleeting.

Paul Gyorgy and co-workers,2-4 beginning in 1953 and continuing for the next 23 years, wrote not only of the importance of lactobacillus bifidus in the stool flora of human infants, but also characterized some of the factors that were responsible for this flora.