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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 244-253Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2537
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- US National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- US National Human Genome Research Institute
- US National Institutes of Health [AR057504]
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The skin is the human body's largest organ, colonized by a diverse milieu of microorganisms, most of which are harmless or even beneficial to their host. Colonization is driven by the ecology of the skin surface, which is highly variable depending on topographical location, endogenous host factors and exogenous environmental factors. The cutaneous innate and adaptive immune responses can modulate the skin microbiota, but the microbiota also functions in educating the immune system. The development of molecular methods to identify microorganisms has led to an emerging view of the resident skin bacteria as highly diverse and variable. An enhanced understanding of the skin microbiome is necessary to gain insight into microbial involvement in human skin disorders and to enable novel promicrobial and antimicrobial therapeutic approaches for their treatment.
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