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The Location of Bacteria in Skin
Author(s) -
Baxby D.,
Woodroffe R. C. S.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1965.tb02159.x
Subject(s) - bacteria , pig skin , human skin , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , food science , genetics
The Castroviejo Keratotome has been used in an attempt to determine the quantitative distribution of bacteria within various thicknesses of pig skin. Results of bacterial counts obtained from serial sections of pig skin indicated that even after vigorous washing, which would remove most of the “transient”surface bacteria, the majority of bacteria were found in the outer 0·3 mm, with decreasing numbers in progressively deeper sections. The results obtained from closely adjacent areas of pig skin from the same animal were comparable, but there were occasional high counts. This indicated that the distribution of bacteria along the skin surface was not constant. The possibility that these high counts were derived from areas immediately above a gland is discussed. The results of bacterial counts made on surface sections of human skin removed with the Keratotome are also presented.