Staphylococcus aureus: Master Manipulator of the Skin

Michael R Williams; Teruaki Nakatsuji; Richard L Gallo

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2017.10.015

Staphylococcus aureus: Master Manipulator of the Skin

Cell Host Microbe. 2017 Nov 8;22(5):579-581. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.10.015.

Authors

Michael R Williams¹, Teruaki Nakatsuji¹, Richard L Gallo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: rgallo@ucsd.edu.

Abstract

Skin colonization by Staphylococcus aureus is associated with severity of atopic dermatitis (AD). Two papers in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe by Nakagawa et al. (2017) and Liu et al. (2017) define a pathway by which epicutaneous Staphylococcus aureus promotes skin inflammation and may contribute to AD.

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Dermatitis, Atopic
Humans
Skin
Staphylococcal Infections
Staphylococcal Skin Infections*
Staphylococcus aureus*

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