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KMID : 0607119960030010105
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Inha Medical Journal
1996 Volume.3 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.108
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Comparative Study of Axillary Bacteria between Normals and Osmidrosis Patients
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백승우
김장호/박상현/추한호/방유현
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Abstract
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Axillary osmidrosis is caused by apocrine sweat. The apocrine sweat is odorless and sterile within the duct. The apocrine sweat which excreated out of the skin surface is contaminated with normal flora of skin and is decomposed to become
malodorous. It
is well known that no gross or histologic alterations of the skin and its appendages are evident in osmidrosis. These facts means that the occurrence of osmidrosis is depended on the residence of specific bacteria, not the excessive secretion of
apocrine sweat.
However, some members of the family of a osmidrosis patient may have the axillary odor while others may not, in spite of that all family members share the same microbiologic enviromnent. This raises a questions on the presently understood
pathogenesis
of osmidrosis, which is depended on the numbers and kinds of specific bacteria. So, we studied comparatively the kind of the bacteria on the skin of odorless and odorous axilla. Diptheroids and staphylococcus epidermidis were mainly showed of the
skin
of odorless skin and odorous axilla. There were no significant differences in the kind of bacteria between the odorless normal axilla and odorous osmidrosis axilla.
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