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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2023 May 12;11(8):2504–2515. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2023.04.052

Figure 2. Relationship between AD severity as assessed by RJL score on bacterial or viral infections.

Figure 2.

Based on their RJL score AD participants were characterized as either Mild, Moderate or Severe. A. The percentage of S. aureus culture positive skin swabs from non-lesional, lesional, either site or both sites increased in a stepwise fashion as a function of AD severity. B. History of skin bacterial infections and extra-cutaneous S. aureus infections increased with AD severity. C. The percentage of AD participants reporting a history of any of four types of bacterial skin infections increased in participants with greater AD severity. D. A greater percentage of AD participants with more severe disease reported a history of the three most common cutaneous viral infections (i.e. human papilloma virus, molluscum contagiosum and herpes simplex virus).