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    • Acne bacteria with P. acnes phages in a petri dish
    Rights: UCLA/Modlin lab. Published 11 December 2012 Size: 330 KB Referencing Hub media

    Dark circles where acne bacteria have been killed off. Dark circles reveal where P. acnes phages have killed off acne bacteria.

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      Waging war on acne

      Scientists in the US have demonstrated the effectiveness of 11 phages (viruses that infect bacteria) living on our skin that naturally seek and destroy Propionibacterium acnes, the bacterial ...

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