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Composition of cutaneous bacterial microbiome in seborrheic dermatitis patients: A cross-sectional study

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PLOS ONE
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251136

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  1. Erasmus Medical Center
  2. Erasmus University Rotterdam
  3. Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
  4. Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE)
  5. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
  6. Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports
  7. European Commission (DG XII)
  8. Municipality of Rotterdam

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The study found differences in the microbiome composition between patients with seborrheic dermatitis (SD) and individuals without diseases, mainly in the genus Staphylococcus.
Background Seborrheic dermatitis (SD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a multifactorial aetiology. Malassezia yeasts have been associated with the disease but the role of bacterial composition in SD has not been thoroughly investigated. Objectives To profile the bacterial microbiome of SD patients and compare this with the microbiome of individuals with no inflammatory skin disease (controls). Methods This was a cross sectional study embedded in a population-based study. Skin swabs were taken from naso-labial fold from patients with seborrheic dermatitis (lesional skin: n = 22; non-lesional skin SD: n = 75) and controls (n = 465). Sample collection began in 2016 at the research facility and is still ongoing. Shannon and Chao1 alpha- diversity metrics were calculated per group. Associations between the microbiome composition of cases and controls was calculated using multivariate statistics (permANOVA) and univariate statistics. Results We found an increased alpha -diversity between SD lesional cases versus controls (Shannon diversity: Kruskal-Wallis rank sum: Chi-squared: 19.06; global p-value = 7.7x10(-5)). Multivariate statistical analysis showed significant associations in microbiome composition when comparing lesional SD skin to controls (p-value = 0.03;R-2 = 0.1%). Seven out of 13 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) that were significantly different between controls and lesional cases were members of the genus Staphylococcus, most of which showed increased composition in lesional cases, and were closely related to S. capitis S. caprae and S. epidermidis. Conclusion Microbiome composition differs in patients with seborrheic dermatitis and individuals without diseases. Differences were mainly found in the genus Staphylococcus.

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