STUDIES ON ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTION OF HUMAN SKIN NORMAL FLORA AND COMMON PATHOGENIC BACTERIA / 微生物学通报

ABSTRACT

Biological antagonism was found to be only one aspeet When we Study the interactions among the microbial populations in and on the human beings. We examined the following strains of the resident flora isolated from the human healthy skin, including propionibacterium acnes (A14-1), Staphylococcus epidermidis (F65), and a number of the common dermal pathogenic micro-organisms such as staphylococcus aurcns. Ps. acruginosa snd E. coli, for their antagonistic interactions in vitro. The following results were obtained, they revealed obvious antagonism After 48h of contact in vitro antagonistic interaction to appear, and after 72h antagonism displayed obviously. On the other hand, P. acnes (A14-1) and S. epidermidis (F65) showed no antagonisim, they behaved commesaly, such commensality seemed to be important for the autoperification of the human normal skin surfaces resulting in dermal microeubiosis of the human beings.We examined the members of the transient microbial flora of the healthy human skin Lactobacterium (ad3), Bifidobacterium (Bf1) and some common pathogenic bacteria in antagonistic experiments in vitro, and discovered that they showed micropopulations appeared to be of great value to the maintenance of good health to their host.