Natural skin antibiotics missing in eczema :The Scientist [10/10/2002]

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by Tudor P Toma

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Natural skin antibiotics missing in eczema

News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021010-03

10 October 2002

Patients with atopic dermatitis — also known as eczema — are susceptible to skin infections, and there are increasing concerns that they can develop severe infections following smallpox vaccination. In October 10 New England Journal of Medicine, Peck Ong and colleagues at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, USA, show that a deficiency in the expression of antimicrobial peptides may account for the susceptibility of patients with atopic dermatitis to skin infection with Staphylococcus aureus (New England Journal of Medicine, 347:1151-1160, October 10, 2002).


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