PMID: 11338502May 8, 2001Paper

The yeast malassezia on the skin of healthy individuals and patients with atopic dermatitis

Vestnik Rossiĭskoĭ akademii meditsinskikh nauk
V G Arzumanian

Abstract

The lipophilic yeast Malassezia spp. from the skin of 32 healthy individuals and 21 patients with atopic dermatitis was isolated and identified. Malassezia sympodialis was shown to be most common in both groups, M. Globosa was less frequently encountered. Moreover, no Malassezia was found in 34 and 53% of cases, respectively. There was a relationship of the skin colonization of Malassezia to the patients' age. Malassezia spp. cultures whose appurtenance was impossible to identified by the Guillot-Gueho method were detected.

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