«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in
healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases
thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director
of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one
of the Human
Microbiome Project's principal investigators.
Think about fungi, and you think about infection, but a healthy skin microbiome consists of 1 - 22 % fungi and almost all of that is malass
Think about fungi, and you
think about infection, but a healthy skin microbiome consists of 1 - 22 % fungi and almost all of that is malass
think about infection, but a
healthy skin
microbiome consists
of 1 - 22 % fungi and almost all
of that is malassezia.