Staphylococcus aureus Colonization of Children with Atopic Eczema and Their Parents

categorical nature were made using Fisher's exact test.Analysis was Sir, carried out using Unistat® for Windows, version 4.5.The prevalence of atopic eczema in children is between 5% Forty-four patients, 26 males and 18 females, were recruited (mean and 15%, and appears to be increasing (1).Prevalence rates age 3.8 years, range 5 months to 14 years).Mean duration of the vary between countries (2), as well as within countries (3).eczema was 22 months (range 1 month to 14 years).None of the patients had previously been seen by a dermatologist.Forty-two of bring their topical treatments for the consultation.Swabs for bacterihospital.The use of antibiotics to treat eczema in primary ology were also taken from the treatment creams and ointments.Each care may not be constant in diVerent parts of the country and S. aureus isolate was then tested for antibiotic sensitivity by a conventional method using a BSAC 91 comparative method.may also account for some of the variation between studies.The mean and standard deviations (SDs) were calculated forThe presence of S. aureus in atopic eczema is often associated SCORAD values of eczema severity in patients with and without with exacerbation of the skin disease (4, 8).S. aureus is often cutaneous S. aureus colonization and for patients with and without a dominant environmental factor in atopic eczema and is an nasal S. aureus colonization.Comparisons between these groups were made using the pooled variance t-test.