The skin microbiome

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 244-253

  Grice, Elizabeth A ^a   Segre, Julia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTEROIDALES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOTHING; COMMENSAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIALES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LACTOBACILLALES; MALASSEZIA; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; METAGENOME; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79952750288     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2537     Document Type: Review

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