Dermatitic Skin: Microbiology and Treatment

Maibach, Howard I.; Aly, Raza

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“…Resistant dermatitic and lichenified lesions of persons exposed to people with impaired antibacterial resistance should be disinfected after thorough wash ing. Local decontamination up to whole-bo dy disinfecting shower baths have been de scribed to be effective [9], Once the S. aureus count has been reduced it may be main tained or further lowered by application of creams containing antibiotics. 190 S', aureus strains isolated from skin of patients with AD have been tested for sensitivity to several topically used antibiotics.…”

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<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Skin Colonization in Atopic Dermatitis Patients

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A study was conducted to compare the Staphylococcus aureus skin colonization of 21 patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) and 22 healthy controls. It was found that the total aerobe count (total CFU/cm²), the S. aureus fraction thereof and the S. aureus carrier frequency were significantly higher in apparently normal skin of AD patients than in healthy individuals. In addition, compared to normal skin of patients S. aureus density was 100 to 1,000 times higher in the 3 different kinds of lesional skin (dermatitic, lichenified and impetiginized sites). 190 S. aureus strains isolated from the skin of AD patients were tested for sensitivity to 5 topically used antibiotics and the results reported. Besides the biological consequences for the person affected by AD this severe colonization with S. aureus is of epidemiological importance. Several outbreaks of S. aureus infections by dispersal from dermatitic skin have been described. Therefore some preventive and therapeutic aspects are discussed.

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<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Skin Colonization in Atopic Dermatitis Patients

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“…C. minutissimum is gram-positive, nonacid fast, catalase-positive, nonspore-forming, urease-negative, nonmotile, gelatinase-negative, and facultative anaerobic bacillus. C. minutissimu m is the normal microbiota of the skin and belongs to the group of diphtheroid bacteria [ 9 – 11 ].…”

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The Prevalence and Antibiotics Susceptibility Patterns of Corynebacterium minutissimum Isolates from Skin Lesions of Patients with Suspected Erythrasma from Tabriz, Iran

Salemi

Memar

Kafil

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Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiolog

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Erythrasma is a chronic infection of the skin that appears in the body folds as flat copper spots. The causative agent of this infection is Corynebacterium minutissimum (C. minutissimum). Erythrasma can be treated with antiseptics or topical antibiotics. The study aimed to investigate the antibiotics susceptibility patterns, and the presence of the erythromycin resistance gene (ermX and mefA) in C. minutissimum isolates in skin lesions with suspected erythrasma. From July 2020 to May 2022, 278 skin scrub specimens were collected from patients admitted to the hospital of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Specimens were incubated on the blood agar plates and isolates were identified by microbiological laboratory methods. The antibiotic susceptibility patterns were determined by the disk diffusion method and resistance genes of ermX and mefA were detected by the PCR method. Out of 278 specimens, 41 C. minutissimum isolates (14.74%) were recovered. The highest frequency of resistance was observed to a penicillin (75.6%) followed by erythromycin and clarithromycin (39.02%), clindamycin (30.05%), tetracycline (24.2%), and gentamicin and neomycin (19.5%). The frequencies of ermX and mefA genes were 75% and 12.5%, respectively. Resistance to antimicrobial drugs was common and worrying. Resistance to erythromycin in C. minutissimum is mainly related to the ermX gene.

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Dermatitic Skin: Microbiology and Treatment

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Skin Colonization in Atopic Dermatitis Patients

<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Skin Colonization in Atopic Dermatitis Patients

The Prevalence and Antibiotics Susceptibility Patterns of Corynebacterium minutissimum Isolates from Skin Lesions of Patients with Suspected Erythrasma from Tabriz, Iran

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