[Quantitative study and typization of aerobic bacteria in the conjunctival sacs of healthy eyes].
We carried out a qualitative and quantitative bacteriological research into the conjunctives of 220 subjects in good health mostly women (180) exempt from recent or previous eyes diseases. In order to gather conjunctival bacteria we employed with a few variations Hadley's et al. (1973 [12]) method. Among the calculated bacterial flora we found as the most numerous ones Staphylococcus epidermidis (mean valor 1960/ml), then Streptococci (480/ml), Micrococci (465/ml), Diphteroides (360/ml), Enterococci (77/ml) and numerous (700/ml) Gram-positives Cocci like Sarcina, Micrococcus tetragenes, Diplococcus, and very rarely bacterial genera Gram-negatives or Iphomycetes, also numerically inferior as regards the researches of other Authors, because owen study is carried by into eyes exempt from diseases.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000332:Aerobiosis; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008837:Micrococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008875:Middle Aged; D012505:Sarcina / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification
Studio quantitativo e tipizzazione dei batteri aerobi dei sacchi congiuntivali di occhi sani.