Demodex and skin infection: Fact or fiction

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-105

  Hay, Roderick ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODEX; DEMODICOSIS; EDITORIAL; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFESTATION; INFLAMMATION; RASH; ROSACEA; SKIN INFECTION;

ACARI; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MITE INFESTATIONS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC;

EID: 77649249963     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e3283360a18     Document Type: Editorial

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