Infective complications of tattooing and skin piercing

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-13

  Messahel, Ahmed ^a   Musgrove, Brian ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body piercing; Skin piercing; Tattooing

Indexed keywords

BODY PIERCING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LUDWIG ANGINA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYPHILIS; TATTOOING; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BODY PIERCING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; TATTOOING; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 61849103487     PISSN: 18760341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2009.01.006     Document Type: Review

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