SELF-STERILIZING POWERS OF THE SKIN
- 1 September 1932
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 26 (3) , 463-465
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1932.01450030461010
Abstract
It has long been recognized that infections of the skin are often associated with hyperglycemia and lowered tolerance for carbohydrates.1Therefore, the next experiments in this series were made to study the influence of the ingestion of sugar on the fate of micro-organisms on the skin. METHOD The method for determining the rate at which micro-organisms are removed from the skin was the same as that used in previous studies.2A standardized emulsion of Staphylococcus aureus was spread on an area of the skin. The organisms on one fourth of the area were immediately transferred by means of a moist swab to a Petri dish of plain agar medium. This was the control for the other areas which were swabbed successively at ten minute intervals, one at a time. The organisms that could be removed from the skin by these swabs were likewise transferred to Petri dishes.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: