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Representation of bacterial and human DNA in skin swab specimens. For each of six assayed locales, skin swab specimens from 8 (forehead) to 16 (all other locales) were obtained, and qPCR was performed to detect human GAPDH or 16S rRNA using universal bacterial primers. From each site, bacterial amplicons outnumbered human amplicons by >2 log10/μl.
