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Our study investigated dermal versus epidermal microbiota in lesional and non-lesional skin of 37 adult atopic dermatitis (AD) patients and 37 healthy controls. Skin biopsies were partitioned into epidermal and dermal compartments, while serial tape strips collected the superficial epidermis. Bacterial communities were analyzed by cultivation, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and metagenomic sequencing. We found that the effects of AD were evident across skin layers. The natural variation between skin layers and habitats diminishes in AD-affected skin, intensifying the impact of the microenvironment and host factors. A remarkably distinct dermal bacterial community was discovered among AD patients, being more conserved and providing a clearer difference between skin habitats, while the epidermis varied substantially. Importantly, comparisons between AD patients and controls revealed more genera differed when studying the dermal samples than the epidermal ones.\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Staphylococcus<\/jats:italic>\n                      ,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Corynebacterium,<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Cutibacterium<\/jats:italic>\n                      genera differed with AD status across all samples, but\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Prevotella<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Mitsuokella<\/jats:italic>\n                      only differed in the dermis. In the dry and moist dermis, this translated into 14 and 61 gene pathways significantly varying with AD status, including many related to the biosynthesis of menaquinones (vitamin K2). 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