Our skin is a colony of a diverse family of organisms, which we cannot see with the naked eye but without whose presence we cannot imagine the health of the human body’s largest organ – the skin. It is home to various bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other tiny organisms. Sometimes, we unknowingly harm this valuable community, only to struggle with the consequences later. Why is the skin microbiome so important, and what skin problems can arise if the balance of the skin microbiome is disrupted?
In the program “Zināmais nezināmajā” (The Known in the Unknown), Aleksejs Zavorins, a dermatologist and lecturer at the Department of Dermatology and Venereology at Riga Stradiņš University, and Ilze Elbere, a researcher at the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, associate professor at the University of Latvia, and Doctor of Biological Sciences, explain these issues.
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