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The evaluations for inflammatory lesion count, Investigator Global Assessment of Acne (IGA), erythema, and purpura indexes were taken before treatment and at weeks 4, 8, and 16.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>There were significant improvements in inflammatory lesion count, IGA scores, and purpura index in both groups as compared with the baseline at week 16 (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.02). The concomitant therapy, but not minocycline only, significantly improved the erythema index (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.40) at the 16<jats:sup>th<\/jats:sup> week as compared with the baseline. The group with combined treatment showed significantly continuous improvements in inflammatory lesion counts (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.04) and IGA scores (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0\u2264\u00a00.02) at weeks 4, 8, and 16 as compared with the group given minocycline only. 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