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Cutaneous Surgical Wounds Have Distinct Microbiomes from Intact Skin

Published:2023-02-14 Issue:1 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Gupta Sameer¹,Poret Alexandra J.²³^ORCID,Hashemi David¹,Eseonu Amarachi¹,Yu Sherry H.¹,D'Gama Jonathan¹,Neel Victor A.¹,Lieberman Tami D.²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Dermatology, MGH, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2. Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

4. Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

5. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract

Commensal bacteria on skin may limit the ability of pathogenic bacteria to cause clinically significant infections. The bacteria on healing acute wounds, which might provide such a protective effect, have not been described using culture-independent approaches in the absence of antibiotics.

Funder

Harvard Catalyst

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.03300-22

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