Milestones in order. This is history, not a weekly activity grid.
- Unna and skin flora
- Sabouraud and fungi
- Transient vs resident
- Marples ecology book
- Hand hygiene evidence
- HMP includes skin
- Grice twenty sites
- Shotgun skin papers
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
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Where should I start with Skin microbiome?
Read Identity → How they live → Body & health, then use compare rails.
Is this page advice for Skin microbiome?
Public-health education — not a care plan, prescription, or outbreak briefing.
What does the local lens add?
It names everyday desks for Beneficial allies before English norms look universal.
Are the scores a ranking of Skin microbiome?
No — editorial 0–100 browsing aids inside this atlas only.
How do I compare Skin microbiome to neighbours?
Use related cards and best-of / quiz rails after the first three chapters.
Which chapter is densest?
How they live and Body & health carry mechanisms; skim Identity first.
Dermatology named resident and transient flora long before sequencing.
Hospital outbreaks taught that hands move Staphylococcus. That is hygiene, not a reason to bleach a life.
Timeline
Early dermatologists describe resident microbes on healthy skin.
Raymond Sabouraud classifies dermatophytes.
Teaching splits passing hitchhikers from organisms that persist.
Mary Marples treats skin as habitat, not a sterile sheet.
Hospital studies tie handwashing to fewer transmitted staphylococci.
The Human Microbiome Project samples skin alongside gut and mouth.
A Science paper maps how body site outweighs individuality for many taxa.
Metagenomes add viruses and fungi to the bacterial story.
History is bathrooms, wards and sequencing cores.
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