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Starting with sulfonamides and penicillin each new antibiotic and chemotherapeutic drug has been enthusiastically welcomed as an effective acne treatment. This exemplifies the difficulties of therapeutic evaluations, for penicillin is ineffective and sulfonamides are hardly helpful. It is almost impossible to compare results from different investigators despite the efforts made to obtain objective data by controlled studies.
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Plewig, G., Kligman, A.M. (1993). Antibiotics: Tetracyclines and Erythromycin. In: ACNE and ROSACEA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97234-8_79
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