Why we continue to use the name Propionibacterium acnes

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
² Microbe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan.
³ Department of Dermatology, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, Harrogate, U.K.
⁴ Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA,, U.S.A.
⁵ Anaerobe Reference Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology Cardiff, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, U.K.
⁶ Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Dessau Medical Center, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Dessau, Germany.
⁷ The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, U.K.

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O A Alexeyev et al. Br J Dermatol. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;179(5):1227.

doi: 10.1111/bjd.17085. Epub 2018 Sep 19.

¹ Department of Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
² Microbe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan.
³ Department of Dermatology, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, Harrogate, U.K.
⁴ Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA,, U.S.A.
⁵ Anaerobe Reference Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology Cardiff, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, U.K.
⁶ Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Dessau Medical Center, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Dessau, Germany.
⁷ The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, U.K.

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