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Wondering if small red pimples on nose could be staph? clusters of three come, then heal up and next day three more in different area on nose show up,

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Pimples: A pimple is a small pustule or papule. Pimples are small skin lesions or inflammations of the skin - they are sebaceous glands (oil glands) which are infected with bacteria, swell up, and then fill up with pus. Propionibacterium acnes is the relatively slow-growing, typically aerotolerant anaerobic, gram-positive bacterium (rod) linked to the skin condition acne.

Answered 8/1/2013

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