The role of the microbiome in psoriasis: moving from disease description to treatment selection?

With several million microbes per square centimetre of skin, the task of mapping the physiological cutaneous microbiome is enormous. Indeed, the reliance on bacterial culture to identify cutaneous bacterial communities has led to a systematic underappreciation of cutaneous microbial diversity, potentially limiting our understanding of common inflammatory skin diseases, including psoriasis. However, based heavily on developments in molecular...