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A 28 year old albino man presented with a cicatricial alopecic plaque on the vertex. The patient had multiple hairs emerging from a single dilated follicular opening. Following inflammatory changes, new tufted hair appeared in spite of several periods of antibiotic treatment, and the disorder followed a relapsing and destructive course. Tufted hair folliculitis (THF) is a relapsing localiz...

The teichoic acids in and beneath the walls of staphylococci are particularly interesting, not only with regard to structure and function but also because of their serological properties. The groupantigenic polysaceharide A from Staphylococcus aureus is indistinguishable from the wall teichoic acid from that organism, and a similar preparation from S. albi4s strains is serologically indistingui...

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