Bacterial Skin Colonization in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis , Eczema Syndrome

From a total of 286 cases of AD patients, 94.4% and 86.36% yielded a 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)x 105cell/cm2 in eczematous lesions and (0.11-23.0)x 103cell/cm2 in healthy areas of atopic skin (P< 0.001).