Characterization of Skin Microbiome in Tinea Pedis

Overview

Journal Indian J Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2019 Nov 26

PMID 31762504

Citations 10

Authors

Xiaoping Liu

Jingwen Tan

Hong Yang

Zhiqin Gao

Qing Cai

Li Meng

Lianjuan Yang

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Abstract

Tinea pedis has been associated with infection. However, it's not clear whether other microbes were implicated in disease pathogenesis. The composition of microbial communities of patients with tinea pedis and healthy controls were analyzed to identify the characteristics of tinea pedis and differences associated with clinical patterns. We found that microbial community structures were different in patients with tinea pedis compared with healthy controls. Moreover, skin microbiome varied in different forms of tinea pedis. Healthy controls exhibited greater fungal diversity than patients with tinea pedis. In patients with tinea pedis, the dominant bacterial and fungal genera were and . Compared with healthy controls, was decreased and was increased. was more abundant in vesicular tinea pedis than in hyperkeratotic and interdigital tinea pedis. Interdigital tinea pedis had a higher detection rate of and than the other forms. These results indicated that bacterial microbes may take part in the development of tinea pedis.

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