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Gram negative folliculitis

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Specialty
  
dermatology

ICD-10
  
L08.8 (ILDS L08.842)

Gram-negative folliculitis occurs in patients who have had moderately inflammatory acne for long periods and have been treated with long-term antibiotics, mainly tetracyclines, a disease in which cultures of lesions usually reveals a species of Klebsiella, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, or, from the deep cystic lesions, Proteus.

References

Gram-negative folliculitis Wikipedia