Opportunistic coryneform organisms - Residents of human skin

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-35

  Kaźmierczak, Anna K ^a   Szarapińska Kwaszewska, Jadwiga K ^a   Szewczyk, Eligia M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coryneforms; Resident flora

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; EPIDERMIS; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIPOPHILICITY; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; SKIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; BACK; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHENOTYPE; SKIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES; CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIS;

EID: 20744459748     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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