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Antibiotics used in nonbacterial dermatologic conditions
Author(s) -
GORDON RACHEL A.,
MAYS RANA,
SAMBRANO BRITTANY,
MAYO TIFFANY,
LAPOLLA WHITNEY
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
dermatologic therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1529-8019
pISSN - 1396-0296
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2012.01496.x
Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , dapsone , dermatology , tetracycline , dermatologic agents , antimicrobial , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The majority of nonbacterial dermatological conditions treated with antibiotics benefit from the anti‐inflammatory properties of these medications, usually dapsone or tetracycline. Many other antimicrobials are used to treat noninfectious conditions. The following chapter is an overview of select noninfectious dermatological conditions for which antibiotics are used, with a focus on the most common antibiotics used for their nonantimicrobial properties