Hi, I'm trying to get environmental DNA from human armpit skin microbiome for metagenome analysis using T-RFLP. Any suggestion for the best product or protocol to get most DNA from these kind of sample? Which DNA swab is recommended?
You could give Catch-All™ Sample Collection Swabs from Epicentre a try. We have used it for food allergy- skin microbiome study and got decent yield. We used Mo Bio Power Soil kit (now it is Qiagen DNeasy Power Soil kit). Qiagen reps recently recommended QIAamp DNA Microbiome Kit for host depletion and particularly for swabs and body fluids.