Skin Bacteria and Skin Disinfection Reconsidered
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Skin bacteria and skin disinfection reconsidered.
Large discrepancies in the available data on skin microbiology stimulated investigations of the number, interactions, and location of commensals and the true efficiency of disinfection by using skin biopsy, culture of frozen sections, and other methods.Most current procedures were less than 0.5% as sensitive as the biopsy method described. This gave mean bacterial counts ranging from 4,400/cm(2...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5793.136