Introduction
Numerous papers have been published about antibiotic-resistant staphylococci, particularly those resistant to penicillin. Most of these publications deal either with hospitalized patients or with healthy staphylococcal carriers. As knowledge about the sensitivity to antibiotics of coagulase-positive staphylococci in patients suffering from pyoderma is scanty1-5 this work was undertaken.The aim was to study the difference in sensitivity to antibiotics of coagulase-positive staphylococci cultured from pyodermatic lesions in the outpatient department with regard to the following factors:
Clinical type of pyoderma, e.g., impetigo, furuncle, infected trauma
Contact with hospital before visiting the outpatient department
Patient hospitalized during previous 12 months
Other member of family hospitalized during previous 12 months
No member of family so hospitalized
In addition the sensitivity of the coagulase-positive staphylococci cultured in 2 parallel periods in 1958 and 1959 was compared.Since many patients did not know which medicines they had previously received, the connection between sensitivity of