Endemic treponemal infections in international adoptees and immigrant children: How common are they?

Pediatric Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 214-215

  Vabres, Pierre ^a  

^a DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMATOSIS; YAWS;

ADOPTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YAWS;

EID: 79955018837     PISSN: 07368046     EISSN: 15251470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2011.01397.x     Document Type: Letter

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