Response to the Commentaries on the Paper: Propionibacterium acnes Strain Populations in the Human Skin Microbiome Associated with Acne  Noah Craft, Huiying Li  Journal of Investigative Dermatology  Volume 133, Issue 9, Pages 2295-2297 (September 2013) DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.275 Copyright © 2013 The Society for Investigative Dermatology, Inc Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 A Biore strip collected from an individual with clear skin showing the follicle contents (indicated by arrows) that we would pluck off the strip and extract genomic DNA from. The genomic DNA extracted from the samples was used in the 16S rDNA sequencing and metagenomic shotgun sequencing described in the paper (Fitz-Gibbon et al., 2013). Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2013 133, 2295-2297DOI: (10.1038/jid.2013.275) Copyright © 2013 The Society for Investigative Dermatology, Inc Terms and Conditions