Malassezia species constitution in youth from some countries of Southeast Asia
ZHANG Hao
XIONG Xin-cai
RAN Yu-ping
LIU Ting
CHEN Yu-juan
Abstract：Objective To investgate the distribution of Malassezia microflora in youth from some countries of Southeast Asia. Methods Two hundred and eighty-five volunteers came from China,Nepal,India and Pakistan were included,which were healthy volunteers or patients related with Malassezia species. The samples were collected from normal skin of face or lesions skin and cul-tured on Leeming & Notman mediums. The isolates were identified to species through physiological and morphological characteris-tics. Results Eight species were identified out from 501 isolated strains,mainly included 203 strains(40. 5℅ )of M. globosa ,95 strains(19. 0℅ )of M. sympodialis ,80 strains(16. 0℅ )of M. furfur ,55 strains(11. 0℅ )of M. restricta and 31 strains(6. 2℅ )of M. slooffiae . There were no obvious geographical differences between these four countries. Conclusions The most frequent-ly isolated species were M. globosa in youth from some countries of Southeast Asia,which were healthy volunteers or patients related with Malassezia species.
Keywords：Malassezia spp.microflorahuman
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 83-87 )