Figure 1.

Topographical representation of the dominant types of bacteria present in the skin microbiome, based on 16S rRNA surveys. Shown are the three most common/abundant genera: Staphylococcus, Corynebacterium, and Propionibacterium. Data were gathered from Gao et al. (2007), Costello et al. (2009), Grice and Segre (2011), and The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012).

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