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Your skin, just like many other parts of your body, is crawling with microscopic critters.

It's a microbial zoo in a sense.

Heidi Kong, dermatology researcher at the National Institutes of Health.

And that microbial zoo, the types of microbes in it, changes over time.

Kong and her team observed some of those changes during a flare-up of eczema, a condition

characterized by itchy, inflamed skin. On healthy skin and on patients with mild eczema,

the researchers found a diverse roster of bacterial residents, including a species of

staff bacteria called Staphylococcusermidus. But in patients suffering a severe

bout of eczema, that diversity was disrupted, and strains of a different staff species dominated,

Staphylococcus aureus. The research team then collected those staphoreus strains from the

exsumacifers and swabbed them on the skin of mice.

And that once healthy mouse skin grew thicker, as it does in eczema and was invaded by immune

response cells.

While not proof, the results suggest that certain strains of staph bacteria could be culpable

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