It is found in soil, water, skin flora, and most man-made environments throughout the world.
This bacterium is largely commensal and part of the skin flora present on most healthy adult humans' skin.
Colonization by odor-producing bacteria is thereby transferred away from the skin (see skin flora).
In skin flora alone there are 1,000 known species in 19 phyla.
The nondiphtheiroid Corynebacterium species can even be found in the mucosa and normal skin flora of humans and animals.
Staphylococcus xylosus is a member of the skin flora of humans and other animals.
It is an infrequent, but usually pathogenic, part of the skin flora.
Since 2004 Edgar Lissel is using his skin flora for his artistic image production.
The density of skin flora depends on region of the skin.
TSV is actually an extremely common component of human viral skin flora.