Rural dermatology in the tropics

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 252-270

  Naafs, Bernard ^a   Padovese, Valeska ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Mekele Civil Hospital   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; CLINDAMYCIN; CRYSTAL VIOLET; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GRISEOFULVIN; IMIDAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; KETOCONAZOLE; MILTEFOSINE; PAROMOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID; SELENIUM SULFIDE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; TERBINAFINE; TETRACYCLINE; TIABENDAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; WHITFIELD OINTMENT;

ACNE VULGARIS; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; BURULI ULCER; CANDIDIASIS; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOSURGERY; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DERMATOLOGY; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROSURGERY; ERYSIPELAS; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; IMPETIGO; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MORPHEA; MYIASIS; NEURODERMATITIS; OSTEOLYSIS; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PODOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCABIES; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TINEA CAPITIS; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA CRURIS; TINEA PEDIS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TROPICS; YAWS;

HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN DISEASES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 64149115113     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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