Mayo Clinic - Boils  |
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| ''Boils usually form when one or more hair follicles, the tube-shaped shafts from which hair grows, become infected with staph bacteria. Staph bacteria that cause boils generally enter through a cut, scratch or other break in your skin. |
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| The Merk Manual - Boils |
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| Boils (furuncles): The condition often occurs in healthy young persons. Clustered cases may occur among teenagers living in crowded quarters with relatively poor hygiene or among contacts of patients infected with virulent strains. |
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| Boils and Carbuncles |
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| Boils are round, red, painful, pus-filled bumps on the skin that are caused by a bacteria infection. When a staph infection infects a hair follicle it develops deep in the root of the follicle and works its way to the skin's surface, forming a boil. |
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