Scabies in children

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Karthikeyan, Kaliaperumal ^a  

^a Kalitheerthalkuppam ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZYL BENZOATE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PERMETHRIN; SULFUR;

ANAMNESIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LICHEN PLANUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUSTULOSIS; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN IRRITATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULITIS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECTICIDES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREVALENCE; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 34249784265     PISSN: 17430585     EISSN: 17430593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.073825     Document Type: Review

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