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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Dec 22;132(3 0 2):933–939. doi: 10.1038/jid.2011.417

Figure 2. Homonculus showing major sites and range of Propionibacterium acnes colonization.

Figure 2

Classic microbiologists swabbed and cultured diverse sites to characterize the predominant sites of colonization (“headquarters”) and general distribution (“range”). Adapted from Marples’ “The Ecology of the Human Skin”.