Skin diseases in war

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 435-438

  Matz, Hagit ^a   Orion, Edith ^a   Matz, Eran ^b   Wolf, Ronni ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Internal Medicine C Department   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE VULGARIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD INJURY; DERMATOPHYTE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECZEMA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFESTATION; KOREA; LEISHMANIASIS; MYCOSIS; PARASITOSIS; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SCABIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SOLDIER; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIET NAM; WAR; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0036658331     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(02)00245-6     Document Type: Article

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