Demodex mites as a cause of human disease

Cutis

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 294-296

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; HLA A2 ANTIGEN; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM SULFIDE; SULFACETAMIDE; SULFUR; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE; ANIMAL; BLEPHARITIS; DRUG COMBINATION; EDITORIAL; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SCALP; SKIN DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BLEPHARITIS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FOLLICULITIS; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HLA-A2 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; SCALP; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFACETAMIDE; SULFUR;

EID: 28844480870     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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