Temporal Stability of the Healthy Human Skin Microbiome Following Dead Sea Climatotherapy

• Main Authors: Michael Brandwein (Author), Garold Fuks (Author), Avigail Israel (Author), Ashraf Al-Ashhab (Author), Deborah Nejman (Author), Ravid Straussman (Author), Emmilia Hodak (Author), Marco Harari (Author), Doron Steinberg (Author), Zvi Bentwich (Author), Noam Shental (Author), Shiri Meshner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medical Journals Sweden, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dead Sea climatotherapy (DSC) is a therapeutic modality for a variety of chronic skin conditions, yet there has been scarce research on the relationship between the cutaneous microbiota and disease states in response to DSC. We characterized the skin bacterial and fungal microbiome of healthy volunt...