Substantial Alterations of the Cutaneous Bacterial Biota in Psoriatic Lesions
Gao Z, Tseng C, Strober B, Pei Z, Blaser M. Substantial Alterations of the Cutaneous Bacterial Biota in Psoriatic Lesions. PLOS ONE 2008, 3: e2719. PMID: 18648509, PMCID: PMC2447873, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002719.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPsoriatic lesionsHealthy personsIdiopathic inflammatory disorderNormal skin samplesBroad-range PCRPsoriatic patientsInflammatory disordersUninvolved skinPsoriatic skinCutaneous samplesNormal skinPatientsLesion samplesNormal personsSubstantial alterationsLesionsPropionibacterium speciesSkin samplesPsoriasisSkinSpecies-level operational taxonomic unitsRDNA PCRAlterationsExtracted DNARange PCR