Bacterial skin colonization in patients with atopic dermatitis/ eczema syndrome

ABSTRACT

From a total of 286 cases ofAtopic Dermatitis [AD] patients, 94.4% and 86.36% yielded positive cultures of eczematous lesions and healthy area of AD skin. Twenty various bacterial types and a total of 959 and 744 isolates were identified from each of above areas respectively. Staph. aureus was the predominant bacterial agent isolated from 60.48% of eczematous lesions, while Staph. epidermidis was predominantly from 57.34% of healthy areas of AD patients [P< 0.001]. The bacterial numbers ranged from [0.02-92.0]x10[5] cell/cm[2] in eczematous lesions and [0.11-23.0]x 10[3] cell/cm[2] in healthy areas of atopic skin [P< 0.001]