The Skin Microbiome: A Focus on Pathogens and Their Association with Skin Disease

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Findley, Keisha ^a   Grice, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIOCIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; OLEIC ACID; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROPIONIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACNE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLEPHARITIS; COMMENSAL; DANDRUFF; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALASSEZIA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSORIASIS; RNA 16S GENE; RNA 18S GENE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FLORA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; DERMATOMYCOSIS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

DERMATOMYCOSES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; MICROBIOTA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84912121742     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004436     Document Type: Article

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