The Treatment of Microbial Eczema Using Phototherapy: a Comparative Assessment
The study was aimed to assess the efficacy of phototherapy in treating patients with microbial eczema. The study included 60 patients with microbial eczema (34 females and 26 males aged 32-79 years). The patients were randomized into two groups. Group 1 (n = 30) was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and group 2 (n = 30) was treated with narrowband phototherapy (wavelength 311 nm) without antibiotics. Both groups demonstrated normalization of clinical presentation and parameters of cell and humoral immunity. The study showed that phototherapy without antibiotics was comparable to conventional therapy of microbial eczema.