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Microorganisms have been used in industry in a number of ways that generally exploit their natural metabolic capabilities. They are used in manufacture of foods and production of antibiotics, probiotics, drugs, vaccines, starter cultures, insecticides, enzymes, fuels, and solvents (Tiquia and Mormile in Environ Technol 31:823, 2010, Environ Technol 34:1637–1638, 2013). In addition, with genetic engineering technology, bacteria can be programmed to make various substances used in food science, agriculture, and medicine.
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Tiquia-Arashiro, S.M. (2014). Biotechnological Applications of Thermophilic Carboxydotrophs. In: Thermophilic Carboxydotrophs and their Applications in Biotechnology. SpringerBriefs in Microbiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11873-4_4
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