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In a survey of over 1000 isolates of aerobic skin coryneforms from a wide variety of sources, Chromatographie methods were used to identify the major cell-wall components in whole-cell hydrolysates.
Most of the skin isolates-like members of the genus Corynebacterium-possessed mejo-diaminopimelic acid and arabinose. However, substantial numbers of coryneforms apparently resident on the skin did not have this pattern; the sites from which they were isolated suggested that some were derived from the environment whilst others (possessing meso-OAF and galactose but not arabinose as major wall components) were members of the resident skin flora.
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