TABLE 2.
Malassezia species and phylotypes identified in 824 clones from normal skin samples from five subjectsa
| Organism identified (% similarity) | % Clones
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1N
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2N
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3N
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4N
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5N
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Total (n = 824) | |||||||||||
| L-Jan (n = 72)b | L-Nov (n = 49) | R-Jan (n = 70) | R-Nov (n = 50) | L-Jan (n = 46) | L-Nov (n = 53) | R-Jan (n = 49) | R-Nov (n = 52) | L (n = 74) | R (n = 73) | L (n = 52) | R (n = 69) | L (n = 65) | R (n = 50) | |||
| Malassezia restricta (99-100) | 77.8 | 87.7 | 42.9 | 82.0 | 4.3 | 32.1 | 18.4 | 40.4 | 51.4 | 45.2 | 0 | 33.3 | 13.8 | 22.0> | 22.0 | 40.4 |
| Malassezia globosa (98-100) | 13.9 | 4.1 | 21.4 | 14.0 | 89.1 | 62.3 | 46.9 | 57.7 | 14.9 | 2.7 | 0 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 22.0 | 23.5 | |
| Malassezia sympodialis (99-100) | 1.4 | 4.1 | 28.6 | 2.0 | 0 | 3.8 | 16.3 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 8.2 | 96.2 | 7.2 | 15.4 | 30.0 | 15.0 | |
| Malassezia pachydermatis (97-99) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.7 | 0 | 1.4 | 40.0 | 0 | 3.5 | |
| Malassezia furfur (100) | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | |
| Undeterminedc phylotype 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 8.2 | 0 | 28.4 | 41.1 | 3.8 | 50.7 | 24.6 | 26.0 | 15.5 | |
| Undetermined phylotype 2 | 6.9 | 0 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | |
| Undetermined phylotype 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | |
| Undetermined phylotype 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | |
a
All samples were obtained from flexor surface of forearm in subjects 1N to 5N. L, left arm; R, right arm. Samples L-Jan/R-Jan and L-Nov/R-Nov were obtained in January 2004 and November 2004, respectively.
b
Number of clones analyzed.
c
Similarity to known organisms was <97%.