Publication: The prevalence of the culturable human skin aerobic bacteria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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2019-08-16
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14712180
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BMC Microbiology. Vol.19, No.1 (2019)
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Ashwag Shami, Samiah Al-Mijalli, Pisut Pongchaikul, Ahmed Al-Barrag, Samah Abdurahim The prevalence of the culturable human skin aerobic bacteria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. BMC Microbiology. Vol.19, No.1 (2019). doi:10.1186/s12866-019-1569-5 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/51031
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The prevalence of the culturable human skin aerobic bacteria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Human skin is an appropriate environment for the growth of different types of microbes that may inhabit the skin as commensal flora. This study aims at identifying the diversity of skin microbiota in healthy Saudi population. In this study, 80 Saudi subjects of both males and females, from different habitat, and different ages (elderly and young), were recruited to determine the aerobic bacterial flora from their three skin sites; hand, scalp and foot. A single colony obtained from aerobic culture was identified using Biomérieux VITEK® 2 system. For those not being identified by VITEK® 2 system, the identification was conducted using 16 s rRNA sequence. Results: Thirty-three bacterial species were isolated from males, whilst 24 species were isolated from females. Micrococci are the predominant organisms, followed by Staphylococci, Pantoea species, and lastly Enterococcus faecium. Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterococcus faecalis, and Klebsiella pneumoniae were only found in elder subjects, while Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from the young only. The number of bacterial isolates in the elders was higher that of the young. The average number of flora was larger in foot, then hand and lastly scalp. Conclusion: Here we show the difference in the number of cultivable bacteria across age and gender that may result in the variety of local skin infection. This study paves the way to further investigation in the aspect of in-depth metagenomics analysis and host-pathogen interaction.