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Impact of Staphylococcus Aureus on Folliculitis Decalvans

NCT02157688 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2016-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The folliculitis decalvans (FD) is an orphan disease , common in consultation specialized on scalp. This disease is currently not curable, responsible for significant for patients. The pathophysiology is poorly understood, Staphylococcus aureus (SA) appears to play a role, never previously studied, and the study will attempt to clarify it.

Controversies in the literature on the pathophysiological hypotheses can be summed up as follows :

FD is it an infectious folliculitis where SA (almost always found on the lesions plays a direct role possibly aided by a lack of local immune protection , or is it a pustular inflammatory unknown cause where the SA has no direct role but is a cofactor or a simple germ superinfection.

Our study has plans to bring new evidence to help decide between these two opposite but not mutually exclusive concepts .

Conditions

  • Folliculitis Decalvans
  • Staphylococcus Aureus

Interventions

OTHER

no intervention : case control study

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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