acne
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For milder forms of face acne, dermatologists may recommend face washes or creams containing benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid or retinoids such as adapalene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The causes of facial and body acne are similar, although skin bacteria sometimes play a larger role in body acne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Breakouts can look like milder, painless white bumps or dark specks known as whiteheads and blackheads, or more painful red bumps and deeper cysts — a mark of cystic acne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Picking can drive inflammation deeper into the skin and cause acne to spread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
They went away and left me there, with a uniformed officer—the one with the neck acne who came to Cathy’s flat in Ashbury a lifetime ago—standing at the door, avoiding my eye.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
This explains why antibiotics failed me time and time again: They selected for the resistant and hypervirulent strains of C. acnes.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2025
To edit the genome of C. acnes, the research team led by Marc Güell has focused on improving DNA delivery to the cell, DNA stability inside the cell, and gene expression.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
The most commonly involved bacteria are Cutibacterium acnes, which live innocuously on skin cells but can grow out of control when the skin's oily sebum increases and boosts bacterial food supply.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Which statement best describes the relationship between humans and P. acnes?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It is now generally acknowledged that the cause of this disease is the organism known as bacillus acnes.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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