"Many patients carry on their skin the microbe we've now shown for the first time. "

How to understand this sentence?

Question

"Many patients carry on their skin the microbe we've now shown for the first time. "

How to understand this sentence?

Answer

I think that this sentence is a bit confusing. I don't believe that "shown" means "put on display" in this case. I think it means"demonstrated " or "proven".

I believe what the person intended to communicate was the following:
"Our study proved that many patients have this microbe on their skin. Nobody had previously proven this."

Answer

A kind of microbe was put on display.

Now the same microbe has been found on the skin of the patients.

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