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Annual Review of Microbiology

Volume 76, 2022

: A Commensal, Pathogen, and Mutualist of Human and Animal Skin

Abstract

Identified in the late nineteenth century as a single species residing on human skin, is now recognized as a diverse genus comprising 18 species inhabiting not only skin but human gut, hospital environments, and even deep-sea sponges. All cultivated species are lipid dependent, having lost genes for lipid synthesis and carbohydrate metabolism. The surging interest in results from development of tools to improve sampling, culture, identification, and genetic engineering, which has led to findings implicating it in numerous skin diseases, Crohn disease, and pancreatic cancer. However, it has become clear that plays a multifaceted role in human health, with mutualistic activity in atopic dermatitis and a preventive effect against other skin infections due to its potential to compete with skin pathogens such as Improved understanding of complex microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions will be required to define ’s role in human and animal health and disease so as to design targeted interventions.

Keyword(s): commensal, health and disease, innate and adaptive immunity, Malassezia, multi-kingdom interactions, mutualism, pathogen, pathogenicity, skin
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Malassezia: A Commensal, Pathogen, and Mutualist of Human and Animal Skin
Annual Review of Microbiology 76, 757 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-040820-010114
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