Disease relevance of Folliculitis

• Whirlpool baths and spas are commonly contaminated with Pseudomonas and have in the past been associated with rash illness and folliculitis [1].
• Transient, mild to moderate, local adverse effects such as burning, stinging, folliculitis, dryness, acneiform eruptions and signs of skin atrophy have been reported with mometasone [2].
• Fluconazole treatment of catheter-related right-sided endocarditis caused by Candida albicans and associated with endophthalmitis and folliculitis [3].
• Isotretinoin treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-associated eosinophilic folliculitis. Results of an open, pilot trial [4].
• Metronidazole for eosinophilic pustular folliculitis in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-positive patients [5].

High impact information on Folliculitis

• Anhydrous formulation of aluminum chloride for chronic folliculitis [6].
• An anhydrous ethyl alcohol solution of aluminum chloride in a 6.25% concentration has been demonstrated to be a highly effective local treatment of chronic folliculitis, especially of the buttocks [6].
• Aminolevulinic acid plus red light caused a transient acne-like folliculitis [7].
• Pseudolymphomatous folliculitis was identified by the presence of activated pilosebaceous units with abundant CD1a-and S-100 protein-positive T-cell-activated dendritic cells [8].
• Topical treatment of the affected area with 10%-15% thiabendazole solution or ointment has limited value for multiple lesions and hookworm folliculitis, and requires applications 3 times a day for at least 15 days [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Folliculitis

• Folliculitis and mesalamine [10].
• Treatment of gram-negative folliculitis with isotretinoin: positive clinical and microbiologic response [11].
• We describe a patient with eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (EPF) who initially responded to oral indomethacin, the most often-used therapy for EPF, but eventually became refractory to continuous administrations [12].
• Folliculitis spinulosa decalvans: successful therapy with dapsone [13].
• AIDS associated eosinophilic folliculitis which responded to both high dose co-trimoxazole and low dose isotretinoin [14].

Anatomical context of Folliculitis

• Neutrophil folliculitis and serum androgen levels [15].
• We propose the term "necrotizing eosinophilic folliculitis," and suggest that the basis of this novel form of EF is an unrepressed T-helper lymphocyte type 2 (Th2)-dominant response to various epicutaneous stimuli in patients with atopy, the prototypic immune dysregulatory state associated with a Th2-dominant cytokine milieu [16].

Gene context of Folliculitis

• Role of Th2 cytokines, RANTES and eotaxin in AIDS-associated eosinophilic folliculitis [17].
• EGFR is widely expressed in skin and skin biopsies in areas involved with the characteristic cetuximab eruption demonstrate neutrophilic folliculitis [18].
• We report a case of folliculitis decalvans, a rare chronic follicular inflammatory process of bacterial origin that is extremely resistant to treatment, in a patient with HAM/TSP [19].
• We encountered a patient who developed P. aeruginosa folliculitis subsequent to the use of a loofah sponge grossly contaminated with the same P. aeruginosa strain (serotype 10; pyocin type 1/a 4,b) that was recovered from her skin lesions [20].
• The lesional skin of five patients with eosinophilic pustular folliculitis was examined using several monoclonal antibodies including a variety of anti-leukocyte adhesion molecules: endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1, vascular cell adhesion molecule 1, and intercellular adhesion molecule 1, by means of immunohistochemical techniques [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Folliculitis

• Sebaceous hyperplasia (14%), dermal elastosis (9%), lipomatous change (8%), epithelial cysts (4%) and keratin granulomas or folliculitis (3%) were not significantly different in prevalence between NF-1, SN and the control group of IDN [22].
• Dissecting folliculitis of the scalp. A case report of combined treatment using tissue expansion, radical excision, and isotretinoin [23].

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