Skin diseases during floods in Thailand

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-484

  Vachiramon, Vasanop ^a   Busaracome, Ploysyne ^a   Chongtrakool, Piriyaporn ^a   Puavilai, Siripen ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Eczema; Flood; Fungus; Gram negative bacilli; Hong Kong foot

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACK; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FLOODING; FOOT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; MYCOSIS; PRURITUS; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MACERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THAILAND; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA CRURIS; TRICHOSPORON; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, IRRITANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; SKIN DISEASES; THAILAND;

EID: 44249106178     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: 01252208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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