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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Dermatol. 2008 Mar;158(3):442–455. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2008.08437.x

Table 1.

Frequency of microbial colonization through clinical and molecular detection methods11,12

Organism Clinical isolate observations Molecular detection
Staphylococcus epidermidis Common, occasionally pathogenic Frequent
Staphylococcus aureus Infrequent, usually pathogenic Frequent
Staphylococcus warneri Infrequent, occasionally pathogenic Occasional
Streptococcus pyogenes Infrequent, usually pathogenic Occasional
Streptococcus mitis Frequent, occasionally pathogenic Frequent
Propionibacterium acnes Frequent, occasionally pathogenic Frequent
Corynebacterium spp. Frequent, occasionally pathogenic Frequent
Acinetobacter johnsonii Frequent, occasionally pathogenic Frequent
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infrequent, occasionally pathogenic Frequent