Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 25, 2026

Strategies to Enhance Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria from Gastrointestinal Tract of Chicken
Published on: May 10, 2024
Characteristics of anaerobes from skin specimens
1Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Toyama, Japan.
Abstract:
Anaerobes isolated from skin specimens from 1999 to 2001 were examined. The most common type was Peptostreptococcus spp., especially P. magnus and P. assaccharolyticus and Bacteroides fragilis. Dominance was seen for P. magnus, P. acnes and P. prevotii. Peptostreptococcus spp. and P. acnes showed high susceptibility to four antimicrobial agents. Prevotella spp. and B. fragilis showed low or no susceptibility to ampicillin, while B. fragilis showed low susceptibility to ceftizoxime. Evaluation of anaerobes is important for the balance of skin flora as well as for the choice of antimicrobial agents, when the anaerobes are pathogenic.
Related Concept Videos
Oxygen Requirements and Growth Patterns
Bacterial Phylum Actinobacteria
Deep Sea Microbial Ecology
The Skin Microbiota
Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidota
Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria
