Bacterial folliculitis and fungal folliculitis can be distinguished from skin symptoms, clinical manifestations, and causative agents. 1. Skin symptoms: bacterial folliculitis is dominated by a single hair follicle inflammatory reaction, with redness, swelling, and hair follicles protruding from the surface of the skin, and is most common in the neck and face, buttocks and thighs. And fungal infection caused by folliculitis, usually dozens to hundreds, distributed in the neck, chest, back and other parts of the symmetrical distribution. 2. Clinical manifestations: bacterial folliculitis, mainly manifested as local skin redness, swelling and pain. And fungal folliculitis will appear different degrees of itching symptoms after sweating. 3. Causative agent: Bacterial folliculitis is mainly caused by bacterial infection, such as Staphylococcus aureus. Fungal folliculitis is caused by fungal infections, such as Malassezia. If the patient has folliculitis, you need to go to the hospital under the guidance of the doctor to carry out relevant examinations, to clarify the cause of the disease, and targeted treatment.