Human Skin and Gut Mycobiome and Bacteriome Comprehensive Registry

Human Skin and Gut Mycobiome and Bacteriome Comprehensive Registry

Bacterial and fungal microbiota will be different between individual body sites; however, particular microbiome profiles both whole-body and site-specific will be unique to volunteers with a given parameter such as medical diagnosis, diet, medications taken, geographical area; etc.

Specific aims:

1. Identify and characterize whole-body and site-specific microbiome profiles.
2. Identify phenotypic microbiome profiles unique to individual parameters such as demographics, medical diagnoses, diet; etc.
3. Perform bacterial-bacterial, fungal-fungal and bacterial-fungal correlation analysis to identify potential synergistic and antagonistic species within these unique profiles.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Capable of giving informed consent.
• Able and willing to complete all required specified study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

• Antibiotic or antifungal use whether topical or systemic in the past 2 or 4 weeks, respectively.
• Unable and/or unwilling to complete all required study procedures.