The skin as the source of Acinetobacter and Moraxella species occurring in blood cultures.
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- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 32 (5) , 497-499
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.32.5.497
Abstract
A study was made of the flora of the skin in hospital inpatients and healthy people to demonstrate the presence of non-fermenting Gram-negative rods of the Acinetobacter and Moraxella group. These organisms were found to be present on the skin of 34.3% of inpatients and occurred even more commonly in those patients with kidney disease. It was also present on the skin of 20% of a group of healthy members of staff. This rather high rate of skin carriage is thought to account for the not infrequent occurrence of this organism in blood cultures.Keywords
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