A Honey Trap for the Treatment of Acne: Manipulating the Follicular Microenvironment to Control Propionibacterium acnes

Today, as 40 years ago, we still rely on a limited number of antibiotics and benzoyl peroxide to treat inflammatory acne. An alternative way of suppressing the growth of Propionibacterium acnes is to target the environment in which it thrives. We conjecture that P. acnes colonises a relatively “extr...

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Main Authors: E. Anne Eady, Alison M. Layton, Jonathan H. Cove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/679680