Emollient use alters skin barrier and microbes in infants at risk for developing atopic dermatitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Glatz, Martin ^a,d   Jo, Jay Hyun ^a   Kennedy, Elizabeth A ^a   Polley, Eric C ^a,e   Segre, Julia A ^b   Simpson, Eric L ^c   Kong, Heidi H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOLLIENT AGENT; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOREARM; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BARRIER; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN FLORA; SKIN PH; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; TAXONOMY; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTERIA; EMOLLIENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIOTA; RISK FACTORS; SKIN;

EID: 85042783860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192443     Document Type: Article

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