The skin microbiome can also impact how alluring we are to mosquitoes.
Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands found that people who were highly attractive to malaria mosquitoes had a different bacterial community on their skin – more abundant, but less diverse – than those who were less attractive.
This may be because skin bacteria plays an important role in the production of human body odour, and without bacteria, human sweat is odourless to the human nose.
The skin microbiome can also impact how alluring we are to mosquitoes. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands found that people who were highly attractive to malaria mosquitoes had a different bacterial community on their skin – more abundant, but less diverse – than those who were less attractive. This may be because skin bacteria plays an important role in the production of human body odour, and without bacteria, human sweat is odourless to the human nose.
