Rationale: Pulmonary infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) is polymicrobial and it is possible that
anaerobic bacteria, not detected by routine aerobic culture methods, reside within infected …

We recently described a sonication technique for the diagnosis of prosthetic knee and hip
infections. We compared periprosthetic tissue culture to implant sonication followed by …

Acne is a common skin disorder of the pilosebaceous unit. In addition to genetic, hormonal
and environmental factors, abnormal colonization by Propionibacterium acnes has been …

Background Acne vulgaris is a disorder of the sebaceous follicles. Propionibacterium acnes
can be involved in inflammatory acne. Objectives This case–control study aimed at …

The Gram-positive bacterium Propionibacterium acnes is a member of the normal human
skin microbiota and is associated with various infections and clinical conditions. There is …

Although two phenotypes of the opportunistic pathogen Propionibacterium acnes (types I and
II) have been described, epidemiological investigations of their roles in different infections …

The anaerobic bacterium Propionibacterium acnes is believed to play an important role in
the pathophysiology of the common skin disease acne vulgaris. Over the last 10 years our …

Immunofluorescence microscopy-based identification of presumptive Propionibacterium
acnes isolates, using the P. acnes-specific mAb QUBPa3, revealed five organisms with an …

Study Design. This is a prospective study comparing the diagnosis of spinal implant infection
by conventional peri-implant tissue culture with a technique which uses a combination of …

We have developed a novel multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme and database ( http://pubmlst.org/pacnes/
) for Propionibacterium acnes based on the analysis of seven core …