# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minoru-shirota
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:45.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minoru-shirota"
name: "Minoru Shirota"
slug: "minoru-shirota"
description: "Minoru Shirota  was a Japanese microbiologist who made pioneering research on gut microbiota and developed the first commercial probiotic. In the 1930, he identified a strain of lactic acid bacteria that is part of normal gut flora that he originally called Lactobacillus casei Shirota, which appeared to help contain the growth of harmful bacteria in the gut. The species was later reclassified as Lactobacillus paracasei."
tagline: "Inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minoru_Shirota.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-04-23"
deathDate: "1982-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.685752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "代田稔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مينورو شيروتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Shirota"
    title: "Minoru Shirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Shirota"
    title: "Minoru Shirota"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Shirota"
    title: "Minoru Shirota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "代田稔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Shirota"
    title: "Minoru Shirota"
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  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "มิโนรุ ชิโรตะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сірота Мінору"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirota_Minoru"
    title: "Shirota Minoru"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump