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Infantile acne in a 2-year-old boy
  1. Lilian Downie1,
  2. Nigel W Crawford1,2,3,
  3. John Su4,
  4. Jim P Buttery1,3,5,
  5. Peter W Goss6
  1. 1Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  2. 2SAEFVIC, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  3. 3Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  4. 4Department of Dermatology, RCH, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  5. 5Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Monash Children's Hospital, Southern Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  6. 6Department of Paediatrics, Gippsland Paediatrics, Sale, Victoria, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Peter W Goss, Department of Paediatrics, Gippsland Paediatrics, Cnr Guthridge St and Stead St, Sale, VIC 3850, Australia; pwgoss{at}bigpond.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302560

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    • Contributors All authors made an equal contribution to the paper.

    • Competing interests None.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.