* Malassezia folliculitis, formerly known as Pityrosporum folliculitis, is caused by yeasts ( fungi ) of the genus Malassezia.

* Oil folliculitis is inflammation of hair follicles due to exposure to various oils and typically occurs on forearms or thighs.

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of folliculitis.

A boil, also called a furuncle, is a deep folliculitis, infection of the hair follicle.

Pseudofolliculitis barbae (), also known as barber's itch, folliculitis barbae traumatica, razor bumps, scarring pseudofolliculitis of the beard, and shave bumps, is a medical term for persistent irritation caused by shaving.

There is also a condition called folliculitis barbae.

Acne keloidalis nuchae ( also known as " Acne keloidalis ", " Dermatitis papillaris capillitii ", " Folliculitis keloidalis ", " Folliculitis keloidis nuchae ", and " Nuchal keloid acne ") is a destructive scarring folliculitis that occurs almost exclusively on the occipital scalp of people of African descent, primarily men.

Hot tub folliculitis is a troublesome skin rash, caused by a bacterial infection of the hair follicles, that can result in pimple-like eruptions and abscesses, arising from inadequately sanitized spa water and bacterial proliferation.

Many medical causes underlying the development of feather-plucking have been proposed including allergies ( contact / inhalation / food ), endoparasites, ectoparasites, skin irritation ( e. g. by toxic substances, low humidity levels ), skin desiccation, hypothyroidism, obesity, pain, reproductive disease, systemic illness ( in particular liver and renal disease ), hypocalcaemia, psittacine beak and feather disease ( PBFD ), proventricular dilatation syndrome, colic, giardiasis, psittacosis, airsacculitis, heavy metal toxicosis, bacterial or fungal folliculitis, genetic feather abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies ( in particular vitamin A ) and / or dietary imbalances, and neoplasia.

In most cases of folliculitis, the damaged follicles are then infected with the bacterium Staphylococcus.

Most carbuncles, furuncles, and other cases of folliculitis develop from Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

S. aureus can cause a range of illnesses, from minor skin infections, such as pimples, impetigo, boils ( furuncles ), cellulitis folliculitis, carbuncles, scalded skin syndrome, and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome ( TSS ), bacteremia, and sepsis.

The folliculitis usually occurs after sitting in a hot tub that was not properly cleaned before use.

* Gram-negative folliculitis may appear after prolonged acne treatment with antibiotics.

* Herpetic folliculitis may occur when Herpes Simplex Virus infection spreads to nearby hair follicles-mostly around the mouth.

* Eosinophilic folliculitis may appear in persons with impaired immune systems.

* Folliculitis decalvans or tufted folliculitis usually affects scalp.

# Fungal folliculitis can worsen with antibiotics and may require an oral antifungal such as Fluconazole.

The medical community has also seen a recent increase in folliculitis, or infection around the hair follicle, in women who wax or shave their bikini areas.

This inflammation can lead to the symptoms associated with some common skin disorders, such as folliculitis and acne vulgaris.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

The amazing thing is that this too is caused by the dearth of teachers.

The actual change Af caused by a shear field is calculated by multiplying the pressure differential times the volume, just as it is for any gravitational or osmotic pressure head.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

The small reaction occurring at 337-degrees-C is probably caused by decomposition of occluded nitrates, and perhaps by a small amount of some hydrous material other than Af.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

However, it is not known to either the union or the public precisely how much of a cost increase is caused by a given change in the basic wage rate, although the companies are presumed to have reliable estimates of this magnitude.

A second factor which enters into the practical measurement of the instrumentally determined cutting force is the frictional resistance caused by the bottom of the knife against the substrate.

Since the load L, under actual cutting conditions is caused by Af, it can be seen that Af

There will be losses caused by emergencies that arise while he is away at his off-farm job.

The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.

She didn't like her stepmother, but nothing is known to have occurred shortly before the crime that could have caused such a murderous rage.

This is precisely what happened when the Puerto Ricans arrived in their thousands -- and the bitterness thus caused is, as I write, being fought out all up and down those streets.

He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.

A certain vagueness may also be caused by tactical appreciation of the fact that the present council meeting is a semipublic affair, with no fewer than six Soviet correspondents accredited.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.