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Can any medications cause boils? is it possible for any medications such as minocycline to cause skin conditions like boils?
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Yes: The cause is indirect, but real. Chronic use of minocen can result in the overgrowth of drug resistant abcesses, frequently staph.
Answered 3/30/2013
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