Rapid rise in bed bug populations: The need to include them in the differential diagnosis of mysterious skin rashes

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 854-855

  Goddard, Jerome ^a   De Shazo, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

CIMEX; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INTERVIEW; LETTER; PAPULE; POPULATION; PRURITUS; RASH; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; MALE;

ANIMALS; BEDBUGS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXANTHEMA; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALE;

EID: 63849108999     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817be9db     Document Type: Letter

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