Pet hamsters as a source of rat mite dermatitis

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 457-461

  Creel, Naomi B ^a   Crowe, Mark A ^b   Mullen, Gary R ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MITE; RASH; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; INFESTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CRICETINAE; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITE INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0141782614     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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