Temporal shifts in the collective dermatologic microbiome of military trainees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 New military members undergo a highly-regimented 7-week training course during which trainees live and work within the same group of approximately 50 subjects for nearly 24 hours a day. This creates an optimal environment for assessing the impact of communal living on the collective skin microbiome.

Purpose

The objective of this pilot study was to investigate dynamic changes of the skin microbiome in basic military trainees (BMT), in light of the unique environmental influences faced by this population.

Patients and methods

 We evaluated collective changes in the skin microbiome of normal healthy adult basic trainees in response to communal living and universal Group A Strep prophylaxis with penicillin over the course of their initial 7-week training cours

SUBMITTER: Gibbons TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6722459 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature