Mite-transmitted dermatoses and infectious diseases in returning travelers

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-31

  Diaz, James H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CROTAMITON; DOXYCYCLINE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PERMETHRIN; PREDNISONE; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULFUR; TETRACYCLINE;

ALLERGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECTOPARASITE; EMPORIATRICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFESTATION; MITE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRURIGO; PRURITUS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIALPOX; SCABIES; SCRUB TYPHUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DISEASE; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TROMBICULIDAE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MICE; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 74049120121     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00352.x     Document Type: Review

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