Community control of scabies: a model based on use of permethrin cream

The Lancet

Volumn 337, Issue 8748, 1991, Pages 1016-1018

  Taplin, D ^a,a   Meinking, T L ^a   Porcelain, S L ^a   Athey, R L ^a   Chen, J A ^b   Castillero, P M ^b   Sanchez, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTAMITON; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OINTMENTS; PANAMA; PERMETHRIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PYRETHRINS; RECURRENCE; SCABIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025903874     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)92669-S     Document Type: Article

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