The skin microbiome: Current perspectives and future challenges

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 143-155.e3

  Chen, Yiyin Erin ^a   Tsao, Hensin ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Wellman Center for Photomedicine   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; atopic dermatitis; Human Microbiome Project; immunology; innate immunity; metagenomics; skin cancer; skin microbiome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL RNA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ACNE; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER RISK; COMMENSAL; COMMENSALISM; DNA MICROARRAY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; KERATINOCYTE; LUPUS VULGARIS; METAGENOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SKIN FLORA; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84879074633     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2013.01.016     Document Type: Review

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