Characterization of the skin fungal microbiota in patients with atopic dermatitis and in healthy subjects

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 625-632

  Zhang, Enshi ^a,b   Tanaka, Takafumi ^a   Tajima, Mami ^b   Tsuboi, Ryoji ^b   Nishikawa, Akemi ^a   Sugita, Takashi ^a  

^a MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Microbiota; RRNA; Skin

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS DIFFLUENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LIQUEFACIENS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MEYEROZYMA GUILLIERMONDII; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; SKIN FLORA; TOXICOCLADOSPORIUM IRRITANS; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

ADULT; BIODIVERSITY; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADOSPORIUM; CRYPTOCOCCUS DIFFLUENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LIQUEFACIENS; FUNGI; MALASSEZIA; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

EID: 80052788873     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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