Winter bugs: Hand sanitisers
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What Kind of Good Bacteria Do You Find on Your Hands?
Staphylococcus epidermides is a group of bacteria that have different species. Some of those species are actually beneficial, and all of us will probably have that on our skin at the moment. Propony bacterium, staphylococus, streptococcus, acenobacter, and carini bacterium as well. They're kind of the main bacterial groups that you find in different parts on the skin depending on if it's the leg or armpit. And we appreciate now that these different types of microbes actually help us programme our immune system for example.
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