The aerobic cutaneous microflora of diabetic subjects |
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| Authors: | DOROTHY A. SOMERVILLE M. LANCASTER-SMITH |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Bacteriology, St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London E9 6BX, and the Division of Medicine, The London Hospital, London, E.I |
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| Abstract: | The microbial skin flora in a group of ninety-eight adults with diabetes mellitus requiring treatment with insulin is described. As in healthy adults with a similar age range, the dominant members of the flora are the micrococci and diphtheroids. Sarcina species and Micrococcus Baird-Parker Group 7 were more common than in the general population, and there was a higher incidence of erythrasma and increased carriage of fluorescent diphtheroids. |
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