By IDSE News Staff
SAN FRANCISCO—Just as we are planning our shore vacations, researchers have found that swimming in the ocean alters the microbiome of the skin and could increase the risk for infection, according to research presented at ASM Microbe, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (abstract 4).
The researchers found that ocean water removed normal skin flora and replaced it with ocean bacteria. They detected ocean bacteria on all participants after air