“…It has been isolated from some cases of skin infection, in association with aerobic bacteria, such as S. aureus (Higaki et al, 2000). It has also been reported to be isolated from a range of acute and chronic wounds (Sanderson et al, 1979;Bowler & Davies, 1999b) including dermal ulcers (Alper et al, 1983), leg ulcers (Bowler & Davies, 1999a), post-thoractomy sternal wound (Brook, 1989b), chronic venous leg ulcers (Gilchrist & Reed, 1989;Hansson et al, 1995;Brook & Frazier, 1998), nonpuerperal breast infection (Edmiston et al, 1990), diabetic foot ulcers (Johnson et al, 1995), burn wound infections (Mousa, 1997), surgical wounds (Steffen & Hentges, 1981) and diabetic foot infections (Wheat et al, 1986).…”