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New perspectives on dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis: lessons we learned from bacterial and fungal skin microbiota Volume 27, supplément 1, June 2017

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Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH),
Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
Avenida dos Estados,
5001 - Bangú, Santo André - SP,
09210-580, Brazil
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Our perception of microbial communities inhabiting the human body, previously referred to as “flora”, was limited due to the constraints of culture-dependent methods [1]. Recent advances in technology, particularly sequencing methods and bioinformatics tools, have promoted significant expansion of our understanding of the human-associated microorganisms, currently referred to as human “microbiome” or “microbiota” [2]. They outnumber human cells tenfold, and impact multiple aspects of health, for [...]