Individual and household attributes influence the dynamics of the personal skin microbiota and its association network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous studies have thus far characterized the temporal dynamics of the skin microbiota of healthy individuals. However, there is no information regarding the dynamics of different microbial association network properties. Also, there is little understanding of how living conditions, specifically cohabitation and household occupancy, may be associated with the nature and extent (or degree) of cutaneous microbiota change within individuals over time. In this study, the dynamics of the skin microbiota, and its association networks, on the skin of urban residents over four seasons were characterized.

Results

Similar to western cohorts, the individuals of this cohort show different extents of variations in relative abundance of common skin colonizers, concomitant wi

SUBMITTER: Leung MHY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797343 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature