Mastitis is a mammary gland inflammatory disease often due to bacterial infections. Like
many other infections, it used to be considered as a host-pathogen interaction driven by host …

The skin is an essential organ to the human body protecting it from external aggressions and
pathogens. Over the years, the skin was proven to have a crucial immunological role, not …

Antimicrobial hydrogel dressings have received extensive attention for their wide and
promising applications in preventing infections associated with wound healing. However …

The skin microbiome varies across individuals. The causes of these variations are
inadequately understood. We tested the hypothesis that inter-individual variation in facial …

Bacteria that reside on the skin can influence the behavior of the cutaneous immune system,
but the mechanisms responsible for these effects are incompletely understood. Colonization …

The skin microbiota is a pivotal contributor to the maintenance of skin homeostasis by
protecting it from harmful pathogens and regulating the immune system. An imbalance in the …

The skin serves as the interface between the human body and the environment and interacts
with the microbial community. The skin microbiota consists of microorganisms, such as …

Allergic disease affects millions. Despite many advances in our understanding of the
immune system in the past century, the physiologic underpinning for the existence of allergy …

We studied skin microbiota present in three skin sites (forearm, axilla, scalp) in men from six
ethnic groups living in New York City. Methods. Samples were obtained at baseline and …

The swabbing and tape-stripping methods have traditionally been used for collecting skin
microbiome samples for skin bacterial analysis, although no reports have compared the …