Current epidemiology of atopic dermatitis in south-eastern Nigeria

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 739-744

  Nnoruka, Edith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOTHING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECZEMA; EDUCATION; ELBOW DISEASE; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHEMA; ETHNOLOGY; FACE DISORDER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; FOREHEAD; GRASS; HAND DISEASE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEEL; HERPES SIMPLEX; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMIDITY; IMPETIGO; INFANT; KERATOLYSIS; KNEE DISEASE; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MYCOSIS; NAIL DISEASE; NEGRO; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; OCCUPATION; ONSET AGE; ORBIT DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAPULE; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PIGMENT DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYODERMA; RASH; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SCABIES; SKIN DEFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEATING; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRUS INFECTION; WRIST DISEASE; XEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6444233382     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.02360.x     Document Type: Article

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