Bleach baths do not alter skin microbial diversity
dysbiosis
Bleach baths did not reduce Bleach baths have no significant effect on We performed high-throughput sequencing of the variable regions, V1-V3, of the conserved 16S rRNA gene to obtain in-depth profiling of the skin microbiome on non-lesional (NA and AD) and lesional (AD) skin before and after bleach baths. The relative abundance of major genera and species is shown in ESM Fig. S4 and Fig. We also assessed whether bleach baths affected the microbial dysbiosis associated with AD skin by evaluating several measures of alpha diversity. The Shannon Diversity Index was unchanged at both non-lesional and lesional sites (Fig. 