Skin infections among Indigenous Australians in an urban setting in Far North Queensland

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1103-1108

  Valery, Patricia C ^a,b,f   Wenitong, M ^c   Clements, V ^a,d   Sheel, M ^a   McMillan, D ^a   Stirling, J ^a   Sriprakash, K S ^a   Batzloff, M ^a   Vohra, R ^e   McCarthy, J S ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Wuchopperen Health Service   (Australia)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

^e QML Pathology   (Australia)

^f ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHEMA; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPETIGO; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SCABIES; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 47249092418     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009740     Document Type: Article

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