| Cutibacterium acnes can cause infections and diseases of skin and other tissues or organs, it is the main bacterium that caused acne. Therefore, they were paid more attention to study and development rapidly in recent years, especially the great change on its taxonomy, which may make it difficult to study and clinically applied and caused perturbation. This paper mainly reviews on taxonomy, physiology ecology, protection mechanism and utilization of C. acnes from their taxonomy and evolution, the pathogenic mechanism and prevention treatments, so as to put it in order and correction of C. acnes phylogenetic relationship and comprehensively and systematically understand this kind of microorganism and serve the decline of in-depth and further study on them, the application of their treatment and prevention, and so on. |
