Psoriasis and Staphylococcus aureus skin colonization in Moroccan patients.

Unlabelled: Psoriatic lesions are rarely complicated by recurrent infections. The aim of our study is to determine skin colonisation and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with psoriasis and in healthy persons.

Patients And Methods: a comparative study that include 33 patients with psoriasis and 33 healthy persons.

The relation between Escherichia coli surface functional groups' composition and their physicochemical properties.

Escherichia coli surface characteristics including hydrophobicity, electrophoretic mobility and surface functional groups' composition were investigated. These characteristics were determined respectively by water contact angle measurements, microelectrophoresis and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The relation between the physicochemical properties and functional groups' composition was also examined.