[Conjunctival fungal flora of healthy people (author's transl)].
A study has been carried out on three groups of subjects. The first group, living in the surrounding of Paris, without inflammatory diseases and without local treatments, gives a contamination rate of 3,92%, which is well balanced with yeasts and fungoid growth myceliums. The principal isolated species were: Penicillium, Aspergillus, Candida, Rhodotorula. The second group with local treatment by mercurothiolate natrium was sterile. The third group, whose subjects had nearly a daily cultivation, allows to establish that: -- The conjunctival fungic flora is variable with time, and differ of a eye from the other for a given subject and its continuance is short; -- The subject contamination seems to be different according to the quality of the immune defenses, the less effective showing always yeasts and fungoid growth myceliums, the other ones slightly infected and only with fungoid growth myceliums; -- The contamination rate seems to be directly related to the intensity of the surrounding atmosphere agitation.
D001230:Aspergillus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000382:microbiology*; D005658:Fungi / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D010297:Paris; D010407:Penicillium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012248:Rhodotorula / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013849:Thimerosal / Q000494:pharmacology; D013997:Time Factors
D013849:Thimerosal
Flore fungique conjonctivale des sujets sains.