acnes (Physician's Desk Reference, 2001). Whereas erythromycin is bactericidal, clindamycin is both bactericidal and bacteriostatic (Wolverton, 2001). Clindamycin is available as a 1% gel ...

In mid-2013 there was a gush of headlines announcing a breakthrough ‘worthy of a Nobel Prize’: that a simple course of antibiotics ... of the bacterium Propionibacterium acnes.

Topical antibiotic plus either zinc or 5% BPO – provides a superior clinical improvement in combination and reduces the development of resistant strains of P. acnes. Oxytetracycline 500 b.i.d ...

The French group said that ORI-001, a vaccine based on recombinant proteins from the Cutibacterium acnes (formerly Propionibacterium ... and topical antibiotics, as well as hormonal therapies ...