Table 3.
Microbial characterization of contralateral skin sites by semiquantitative culture
| Bacterial groupa | Characteristic in isolateb from patient: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | |
| CNS | Sd | Sd | Sc | Sd | Sd | S | 1+c | S | Sd | Sd | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+d | 1+c | 1+d | Sc | S | S | |||
| Corynebacterium spp. | S | S | S | 1+ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Micrococcus spp. | S | 1+ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
a
CNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci. Additional bacterial groups shown in Table 2 were not detected.
b
Shading indicates skin samples from contralateral sites of patients with wounds whose tissue samples cultured pathogens, defined according to established culture-based criteria. S, scant growth; 1+, light growth (see Materials and Methods for definitions).
c
Genus identified on DGGE sequence analysis from bands derived from the sample or aligned sequenced bands.
d
Species identified on DGGE sequence analysis from bands derived from the sample or aligned sequenced bands.