Unveiling Facklamia: detection of an emerging microbe in the skin microbiome of patients with filarial lymphedema

Facklamia is an emerging pathogen in human beings and only a few clinical cases were reported in the literature. We detected the presence of this unusual microbe among the skin flora of three patients with filarial lymphedema in a 16S rRNA-based metagenomic study on the skin microbiome. To our knowl...

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Main Authors: Danapriyaa Dharmalingam, Janani Semalaiyappan, Sankari Thirumal, Vijesh Sreedhar Kuttiatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2025.1624288/full
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