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Design: Observational cross-sectional study.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods and Material:<\/jats:title>\n A total of 109 patients with pustular acne vulgaris were recruited over 15 months. Skin swabs were collected from lesions, cultured on Propionibacterium Isolation agar, and identified by conventional microbiological methods. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) was conducted using the Epsilometer test (E-test) to assess the AMR trends to clindamycin, erythromycin, doxycycline, and azithromycin.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n \n C. acnes<\/jats:italic>\n was isolated from 29.35% of acne cases. Most of the acne vulgaris cases belonged to 18\u201325 years of age (77.98%) and were male patients (62.38%). Resistance to two or more classes of antibiotics was observed in 25% of isolates. Maximum resistance was observed for macrolide groups of antimicrobial agents, that is, erythromycin and azithromycin, while doxycycline (93.7%) and clindamycin (81.2%) exhibited good susceptibility.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n \n This study highlights a significant concern regarding AMR in\n C. acnes<\/jats:italic>\n , particularly to macrolides. 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