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Spending long hours reading research on LAB amid a particularly disheartening breakout, I became fixated on the idea that the key to clearer skin lay in the strategic inclusion of beneficial bacteria through probiotics rather than the indiscriminate eradication of bacteria through broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Look for broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher; it should be worn daily and reapplied every couple of hours.

The widespread use of broad-spectrum antibiotics - they target many bacteria types but can kill good bacteria, cause side-effects and increase antibiotic resistance - fuels drug resistance by encouraging the emergence of drug resistant bacterial mutants.

"Virtually all antibiotics are A-bombs. They are broad-spectrum and we use them in such high doses that they eradicate nearly everything in and around them, notably bacteria that protect us. That's a problem," said Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, professor of chemistry.

One traditional method of determining antibiotic efficacy against it is by looking for signs of Burkholderia growth with the unaided eye or through a simple assay, and then treating it with a broad-spectrum antibiotic that kills everything in its path: antibiotic as blunt instrument.