<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Pechère M</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Remondat C</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Bertrand C</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Didierjean L</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Saurat JH</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1995</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">BACKGROUND
Etiological role of Malassezia spp. remains controversial in certain skin diseases.


OBJECTIVE
To adapt a 'tape method' for quantitative culture of Malassezia spp.


METHOD
Samples for culture were taken from clinically normal forehead skin of HIV-positive and negative persons by stripping with a tape that was then placed on Leeming &amp; Notman medium. The number of colonies was counted after 14 days.


RESULTS
74/78 (94.8%) cultures were positive, for a median count of 9 CFU/tape (range 0 to &gt; 200). High skin density of Malassezia spp., defined as more than 100 CFU/tape, was found in 7/38 (18.4%) HIV-positive persons and was absent (0/40) in the HIV-negative group (p &lt; 0.01).


CONCLUSION
The method used is simple, unexpensive and reliable. High Malassezia spp. density was only found in HIV-positive patients.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/33137</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1159/000246598</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/8573942</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland). - 1995</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Colony Count, Microbial</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Culture Media</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Forehead</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">HIV Seronegativity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">HIV Seropositivity</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Humans</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Malassezia</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Mycology</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Reproducibility of Results</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">Skin</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">A simple quantitative culture of Malassezia spp. in HIV-positive persons.</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>