The bacterial and fungal microflora of the nail plate in patients with atopic dermatitis
Vera Georgievna Arzumanyan , T I Kabaeva , N O Vartanova , V G Arzumanyan , T I Kabayeva , N O Vartanova
Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases ›› 2011, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (1) : 36 -38.
The bacterial and fungal microflora of the nail plate in patients with atopic dermatitis
The microflora of affected nail plates was studied in atopic dermatitis patients with suspected onychomycosis. All the examined nail samples were shown to contain microorganisms inside keratinocytes in a group of 4 adults aged 24-35 years and 20 children aged 0.3-15 years. Two of the 24 subjects were found to have only mycotic elements; 2 had only gram-positive bacteria; the other 20 had mixed microflora. Eighteen subjects were ascertained to have yeast blastospores and 4 had dermatophyte elements. It was shown that there was no correlation between the bacterial and fungal contamination of samples (p = 0.006).Whether it is necessary to design new topical agents to treat concomitant bacterial and fungal lesions of the nail plate is discussed in the paper.
nails / onychomycosis / onychobacteriosis / atopic dermatitis
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