[Staphylococcus and skin diseases--incidence and antibiotic sensitivity]

Bacterial flora of the skin is influenced by several factors (moisture, occlusion, desquamation, microbial antagonism, etc). Changed conditions on diseased skin result in changes of bacterial flora. Bacterial flora was qualitatively determined both in patients with Psoriasis vulgaris, Tinea Pedis, ulcerovarice syndrome, and in the control group. Special attention was paid to Staphylococcus and its sensitivity to antibiotics. The result was as follows: the largest percentage (48%), ob: pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus was found in ulcus cruris then in psoriasis (32%), in enterdigitas areas of legs in patients with mycosis (25%) and in 5% of healthy skin of the control group. High resistance to antibiotics use for a long time (penicillin, ampicillin). and high sensitivity to new antibiotics (Visiren, Abactal), was established. It is concluded that inflamed skin offers good condition for development of Staphylococcus, and that the incidence of this bacteria depends on aetiopathogenesis of the present dermatosis and factors which regulate bacterial flora.