Pyoderma and scabies: A benign association?

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-70

  Hay, Roderick J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RISK; NEPHRITIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEINURIA; PYODERMA; RISK FACTOR; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037399036     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001432-200304000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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