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Traditional therapies are invasive and have a high rate of recurrence, and newer topical agents available are costly. Here I discuss evidence supporting the hypothesis that the aluminum-based salts, utilized in the antiperspirant industry since the early 1900s, could have a therapeutic effect on skin lesions due to molluscum contagiosum, HPV and possibly other viruses. 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I agree with the first suggestion, and the title will be edited accordingly (only waiting for additional reports before starting on any article revisions). Unfortunately, since these anecdotal observations occurred in a personal -not hospital- setting, no pictures are available.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/14-1340\/v2#referee-comment-15360","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-15360","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"<b>Jose Camargo<\/b>; \n<i>Posted: 07 Jul 2026<\/i>; Tittle has been edited following the reviewer's recommendation.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/14-1340\/v2#referee-comment-16598","order":2,"name":"referee-comment-16598","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.205829.r510583, Aurora Marques Cianciarullo, Viral Biotechnology Laboratory, Sao Paulo, 03 Sep 2026, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/14-1340\/v2#referee-response-510583","order":3,"name":"referee-response-510583","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work","order":4,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}