FIG 3 .

S. aureus AD08 bacteria bind weakly to high-NMF corneocytes. (A and B) Adhesion force and rupture distance histograms with representative force profiles obtained in PBS between S. aureus AD08 bacteria and corneocytes from two patients with high NMF levels. For each patient, three representative bacterium-corneocyte pairs out of a total of seven pairs are shown. See Fig. S1 in the supplemental material for additional bacterium-corneocyte pairs, and see Fig. 5 for a statistical analysis of all samples analyzed.