the desert, the scalps are the cool woods and the armpit is the tropical rainforest. The armpit is like the tropical rainforest, containing an enormous amount of bacteria. Although numbers of bacteria go very high, not a lot of different bacteria reside over there. The diversity of the axilla is rather low, compared to other skin sites such as the belly button and the hands. Therefore, some very dominant bacteria reside in the armpit. Most of the times, staphylococci or micrococcus bacteria are the dominant bacterial strains. In the first case, this only result in a moderate –normal– body odor, while in the last case, this can give rise to an unpleasant smell. Microbes love the cozy warmth of the human armpit; it's like a trip to the tropics without ever having to leave home. And it's crowded in there. Those microbes eat compounds in sweat and generate odors, which support a flourishing deodorant industry.
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Micrococcus luteus (M. luteus) is a Gram-positive to Gram-variable, non-motile, coccus, saprotrophic bacterium. It can form in tetrads or irregular clusters but not in chains and belongs to the family Micrococcaceae. Type of margin: Entire Type of elevation: Convex Texture: smooth, glistening Pigmentation: Yellow, non-diffusible pigment