Abstract
In an earlier report no significant differences were found in the enteric bacterial flora of ten patients with severe pustular acne vulgaris and ten normal controls (1). The results indicated that the lower intestinal bacterial flora apparently played no part in the causation of pustular acne vulgaris in the patients studied. The use of antibiotic therapy in the treatment of pustular acne vulgaris has been emphasized by several investigators (2, 3, 4). The present study was undertaken to determine qualitatively the difference in the lower intestinal bacterial flora of patients with severe pustular acne vulgaris before and after antibiotic therapy. The acne patients selected for this study were limited to those whose pustular lesions improved after oral antibiotic therapy.
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