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The most widely prescribed antibiotics for treating skin infections are penicillins. One of the first antibiotics used in clinical medicine was penicillin, and it is still prescribed today. Sadly, its widespread use has increased the resistance of some common bacteria to numerous penicillin types.The most common bacteria that cause skin infections are effectively treated with penicillin antibiotics, including: - Staphylococcus aureus - Streptococcus pyogenes - Other staphylococci and streptococci - Meningococci - Gonococci - Corynebacteria - Listeria - Spirochaetes (such as syphilis) - A few anaerobes - A few Gram-negative organisms.