No link between rosacea and Propionibacterium acnes

APMIS

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 922-925

  Jahns, Anika C ^a   Lundskog, Bertil ^a   Dahlberg, Ida ^a   Tamayo, Natalia Curiche ^a   Mcdowell, Andrew ^b   Patrick, Sheila ^b   Alexeyev, Oleg A ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Granuloma; Immunofluorescence; Propionibacterium acnes; Rosacea

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; ROSACEA; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOFILMS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROSACEA; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866881989     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02920.x     Document Type: Article

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