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	Folliculitis- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Folliculitis is probably the most common of all skin infections.
		Folliculitis may lead to furunculosis, and if left untreated, it may lead to cellulitis (a more extensive inflammation of the skin).
		In folliculitis, inspection usually reveals pustules on the scalp, arms and/or legs; on the face of bearded men; and possibly on the eyelids.
	www.healthcentral.com /encyclopedia/408/209.html (551 words)

	Folliculitis- Folliculitis Treatment- Folliculitis Causes- Folliculitis Cure
		Folliculitis is a somewhat nonspecific term that refers to inflammation of the hair follicle (in clinical practice, this term does not include acne vulgaris).
		Folliculitis is frequently initiated by mild physical injury to the follicles, such as friction caused by tight-fitting garments, or by ingrown hairs in the beard area in men.
		Folliculitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa ("hot tub folliculitis") may occur in patients exposed to water sources that are contaminated by that organism.
	www.elanmedispa.com /dermatologist-services/folliculitis.asp (610 words)

	Folliculitis - Health Encyclopedia
		Folliculitis is inflammation of one or more hair follicles.
		Folliculitis starts when hair follicles are damaged by friction from clothing, blockage of the follicle, or shaving.
		In most cases of folliculitis, the damaged follicles are then infected with the bacteria Staphylococcus (staph).
	www.wnbc.com /encyclopedia/6860912/detail.html (522 words)

	infectious hair disease - types of bacterial folliculitis
		Folliculitis (Inflammation of a follicle) is more common in areas of the skin where short, coarse hair grows.
		To simplify the spectrum of folliculitis, infectious folliculitis is further classified as Bacterial Folliculitis, Syphilitic Folliculitis, Fungal Folliculitis, Viral Folliculitis and Parasitic Folliculitis, depending on the pathogen responsible for the infection.
		Superficial folliculitis, also called impetigo, is a superficial infection of the skin characterized by thin-walled vesicles and bullae that readily rupture, forming lightly adherent yellowish crusts.
	www.keratin.com /aq/aq014.shtml (1388 words)

	Follicle Disorders - Folliculitis - DermatologyChannel
		Folliculitis is infection and inflammation of the hair follicles.
		Folliculitis can clear up by itself in a matter of a couple of weeks or become more persistent and thus require treatment.
		An early sign of folliculitis is a small white or yellow pus-filled lesion (pustule) on a red, inflamed follicle.
	www.dermatologychannel.net /follicle/folliculitis.shtml (599 words)

	Folliculitis - Page 1
		Folliculitis is inflammation of a hair follicle caused by infection, chemical irritation or physical injury.
		Folliculitis is more common in people who are obese and have a suppressed immune system due to diabetes, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or other medical conditions.
		In cases where folliculitis is not easily identified, a sample from a pustule (small, pus-filled blister) may be taken and sent to a laboratory, where it will be examined under a microscope to determine whether bacteria or fungi are present.
	skin.healthcentersonline.com /skinrelatedinfections/folliculitis.cfm (433 words)

	Facial Infection - Fighting Facial Infections: Folliculitis and Friends
		Folliculitis is an inflammation and infection of the hair follicle caused by bacteria that live on the skin's surface such as Staphylococcus aureus.
		Folliculitis is more common among women when the weather gets warm and they start shaving more often.
		Like folliculitis, furuncles are an infection of the hair follicle, but this infection produces a large, round, tender area, or nodule, whereas folliculitis produces a bump or pustule.
	www.dentalplans.com /Dental-Health-Articles/Fighting-Facial-Infections-Folliculitis-and-Friends.asp (1210 words)

	Folliculitis - Patient UK
		Folliculitis is a crop of infected hair follicles.
		Folliculitis is an inflammation of a number of hair follicles of the skin.
		The difference between folliculitis and boils is that: boils tend to be larger and single.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/27000329 (522 words)

	MayoClinic.com Health Library - Folliculitis
		This type of folliculitis is marked by itchy, white, pus-filled lumps in the beard area in men and sometimes on the legs or underarms in women.
		Mild cases of folliculitis aren't likely to cause complications, although the infection may recur or spread, leading to large, itchy patches of staph infection on the skin (plaques).
		Sometimes folliculitis goes away on its own in two or three days, but persistent or recurring cases are likely to require treatment.
	www.riverside-online.com /health_reference/Disease-Conditions/DS00512.cfm (2203 words)

	Folliculitis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Folliculitis caused by a fungus is most often seen in people who have trouble fighting infections because they have an impaired immune system.
		Folliculitis usually looks like red pimples with a hair in the center of each one.
		Your doctor may do tests to find out what is causing your folliculitis and to make sure that what you have is not a different problem, such as impetigo or heat rash.
	www.luhs.org /health/kbase/htm/hw17/1614/hw171616.htm (504 words)

	Folliculitis, Boils, and Carbuncles - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
		Folliculitis is the inflammation of hair follicles due to an infection, injury, or irritation.
		Diagnosis of folliculitis, boils, and carbuncles are made by your child's physician after a thorough medical history and physical examination.
		After examining the lesions, your child's physician may culture the wounds (obtain a sample of the drainage of the wound, allow it to grow in the laboratory, and identify specific bacteria) to help verify the diagnosis and to help in selecting the best treatment.
	www.lpch.org /DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/derm/fbcs.html (303 words)

	Folliculitis
		Folliculitis occurs when Staphylococcus bacteria or a fungus is able to enter the skin around a hair follicle.
		While folliculitis can occur anywhere on the body, it is most likely to appear on the arms, armpits, legs, or on the scalp.
		Folliculitis caused by an unsanitary hot tub is more likely to occur on the areas covered by a bathing suit, such as the buttocks.
	www.hmc.psu.edu /healthinfo/f/folliculitis.htm (536 words)

	FOLLICULITIS
		Folliculitis is a common skin infection of the hair follicles (base of the hair).
		Pseudofolliculitis resembles folliculitis but is actually a reaction to shaving with razors, and is treated differently than folliculitis.
		The risk of folliculitis is higher in patients with diabetes, poor hygiene, and certain chronic illnesses.
	www.apma-nc.com /PatientEducation/folliculitis.htm (330 words)

	Folliculitis
		Folliculitis begins as a red, tender area at or near the base of one or more strands of hair.
		Deep folliculitis can also lead to other skin infections that generally cause more pain and discomfort, such as a boil (furuncle) or carbuncle.
		If your doctor thinks that you have folliculitis, he or she will examine the skin over your entire body, especially on your arms, legs, buttocks, and scalp.
	www.meritcare.com /hwdb/showtopic.aspx?module_abbrev=MINI&pd_hwid=hw171614&print=yes (1659 words)

	Folliculitis
		Folliculitis is a bacterial infection of the hair follicles or the skin surrounding the hair.
		Some people are born with a tendency to development folliculitis.
		The doctor will give you an antibiotic to put on your skin and may give you antibiotic pills if you have a severe case of folliculitis.
	www.skinsite.com /info_folliculitis.htm (156 words)

	Folliculitis - Genesis Health System
		Folliculitis is inflammation or infection of one or more hair follicles (openings in the skin that enclose hair).
		Folliculitis can cause boils and, in rare instances, serious skin infections.
		Folliculitis develops when bacteria, such as Staphylococcus, or a fungus enters the body through a cut, scrape, surgical incision, or other break in the skin near a hair follicle.
	www.genesishealth.com /conditions/DetailedDisease/000543.aspx (629 words)

	Folliculitis - Patient UK
		Often, the cause of superficial folliculitis is unclear.
		Furuncles are a more deep-seated infection of the base of the hair follicle characterised by inflammatory nodules and pus formation, which may result from folliculitis.
		Folliculitis of the eyelash is known as a stye or hordeolum.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40024591 (1191 words)

	Dermatology - Folliculitis, Boils, and Carbuncles
		Folliculitis is the inflammation of hair follicles due to an infection, injury, or irritation.
		Diagnosis of folliculitis, boils, and carbuncles are made by your child's physician after a thorough medical history and physical examination.
		After examining the lesions, your child's physician may culture the wounds (obtain a sample of the drainage of the wound, allow it to grow in the laboratory, and identify specific bacteria) to help verify the diagnosis and to help in selecting the best treatment.
	www.musckids.com /health_library/derm/fbcs.htm (261 words)

	eMedicine - Folliculitis : Article by Elizabeth Satter, MD
		Acne is often confused with folliculitis; however, the follicular inflammation seen in acne is a secondary event that occurs as a result of follicular obstruction due to abnormal keratinization.
		Pathophysiology: Folliculitis is a primary inflammation of the hair follicle that occurs as a result of various infections or secondary to follicular trauma or occlusion.
		This superficial fungal folliculitis is most commonly seen in male farmers and typically affects one side of the face in the submaxillary region or chin.
	www.emedicine.com /derm/topic159.htm (4471 words)

	Folliculitis, Skin Abscesses, and Carbuncles: Bacterial Skin Infections: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Folliculitis, skin abscesses, and carbuncles are pus-filled pockets in the skin resulting from bacterial infection.
		Folliculitis: Folliculitis is an infection of a hair follicle.
		Folliculitis caused by ingrown hairs is treated by a number of methods with varying success.
	www.merck.com /mrkshared/mmanual_home2/sec18/ch211/ch211g.jsp (652 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Hot tub folliculitis
		Hot tub folliculitis is an infection of the hair follicles that results from exposure to certain bacteria that live in warm, wet areas.
		Most folliculitis is caused by the common organism Staphylococcus aureus.
		However, hot tub folliculitis is caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/001460.htm (440 words)

	Folliculitis Barbae
		Folliculitis can occur anywhere there is an injury or damage to the hair follicle caused by the rubbing of clothing or blockage of the follicle (follicular congestion).
		Folliculitis barbae is not acne but has similarities to acne, such as pustules and infection.
		Folliculitis is caused by Staphylococcus bacteria (staph) and not by propionibacterium acnes, which causes acne.
	www.bion-research.com /folliculitis_barbae.htm (409 words)

	What Looks like Acne: Folliculitis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Folliculitis is an infection of the hair follicle that is most commonly bacterial, but can occasionally be caused by a fungus.
		Candida folliculitis can be seen on the scalp and in occluded moist areas, such as under the breasts and in the groin areas of people who are obese.
		The choice of folliculitis treatment will depend on the cause of the infection as well as how deep and extensive it is. Topical antibiotics should be used in the short term to minimize the risks of bacterial resistance.
	www.acneguide.com /acus_basics/like_acne/folliculitis.html (1131 words)

	Eosinophilic Folliculitis
		In the standard literature of dermatology and dermatopathology "eosinophilic pustular folliculitis in infancy" is presented as a distinctive inflammatory disease of the skin, to wit, a variant of "Ofuji's eosinophilic folliculitis".
		We propose that eosinophilic pustular folliculitis of infancy is a distinct pustular dermatosis.
		Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (Ofuji's disease) is a rare skin disease of unknown etiology characterized by infiltrated circinate plaques with sterile follicular pustules in primarily seborrheic areas.
	www.thedoctorsdoctor.com /diseases/folliculitis_eosinophilic.htm (3531 words)

	Folliculitis: symptoms, treatment, prevention, long-term outlook, cause, complications, risk
		Folliculitis is also called pseudofolliculitis barbae, tinea barbae, and barber's itch.
		In some cases of folliculitis, the damaged hair follicles become infected with the bacteria Staphylococcus.
		Specific types of folliculitis are characterized by the area of the body that is affected.
	www.mamashealth.com /skin/folliculitis.asp (260 words)

	Folliculitis. DermNet NZ
		Folliculitis is the name given to a group of skin conditions in which there are inflamed hair follicles.
		Malassezia folliculitis (Pityrosporum folliculitis) is an itchy acne-like condition usually affecting the upper trunk of a young adult.
		In the beard area irritant folliculitis is known as pseudofolliculitis barbae.
	www.dermnetnz.org /acne/folliculitis.html (571 words)

	Folliculitis-Topic Overview
		Folliculitis caused by a fungus is most often seen in people who have trouble fighting infections because they have an impaired immune system.
		Often folliculitis develops because you have damaged your hair follicles.
		Folliculitis usually looks like red pimples with a hair in the center of each one.
	www.webmd.com /a-to-z-guides/Folliculitis-Topic-Overview (593 words)

	Pityrosporum Folliculitis
		Pityrosporum folliculitis is a condition where the yeast, pityrosporum, gets down into the hair follicles and multiplies, setting up an itchy, acne-like eruption.
		Pityrosporum folliculitis sometimes turns out to be the reason a case of acne isn't getting better after being on antibiotics for months.
		Pityrosporum folliculitis is not an infection as such; it is an overgrowth of what is normally there.
	www.aocd.org /skin/dermatologic_diseases/pityrosporum_folli.html (741 words)

	AllRefer Health - Hot Tub Folliculitis
		Folliculitis is a superficial infection of the hair follicle.
		Hot tub folliculitis is a folliculitis that develops after exposure to certain forms of bacteria that reside in warm, wet environments such as hot tubs.
		The rash may be more dense under swimsuit areas, where the material has held the contaminated water in contact with the skin for a longer period of time.
	health.allrefer.com /health/hot-tub-folliculitis-info.html (377 words)

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