Microbiome in the hair follicle of androgenetic alopecia patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Ho, Bryan Siu Yin ^a   Ho, Eliza Xin Pei ^b   Chu, Collins Wenhan ^b   Ramasamy, Srinivas ^a   Bigliardi Qi, Mei ^a   de Sessions, Paola Florez ^b   Bigliardi, Paul Lorenz ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CONTAMINANS; BURKHOLDERIA KURURIENSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIUM KOMAGATAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RNA SEQUENCE; SKIN FLORA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; SPHINGOMONAS; ALOPECIA; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM;

ALOPECIA; BURKHOLDERIA; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MALE; MICROBIOTA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 85065565323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0216330     Document Type: Article

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