Skin infections in developing countries

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 459-466

  Afsar, Fatma Sule ^a  

^a DR BEHÇET UZ CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

children; infection; skin

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; BENZYL BENZOATE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CLOXACILLIN; CROTAMITON; DAPSONE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; EXOTOXIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUSIDATE SODIUM; ISONIAZID; IVERMECTIN; KETOCONAZOLE; LINDANE; MALATHION; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PERMETHRIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RETAPAMULIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFIRAM; SULFUR; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABSCESS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ACROPUSTULOSIS INFANTUM; ACTINOMYCETOMA; ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BCG VACCINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; BURULI ULCER; CANDIDIASIS; CARBUNCLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLIMATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTAMINATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CRYOSURGERY; CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHTHERIA; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECTHYMA; ECZEMA; EDEMA; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHEMA STREPTOGENES; ERYTHRODERMIC PSORIASIS; EUMYCETOMA; EXCISION; FEVER; FIBROSIS; FISTULA; FOLLICULITIS; FOOT; FURUNCULOSIS; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAND; HERPES SIMPLEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMPETIGO; IMPETIGO BULLOSA; INOCULATION; INSECT BITE; KELOID; LEG; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LUPUS VULGARIS; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALNUTRITION; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; ORIFICIAL TUBERCULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTINFLAMMATORY HYPOPIGMENTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUSTULE; PYODERMA; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RASH; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SCABIES; SKIN DIPHTHERIA; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SKIN ULCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TROPICAL PHAGEDENIC ULCER; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCER; UNCINARIASIS; VITILIGO; WEAKNESS; CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955229922     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833bc468     Document Type: Review

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