Dermatologic infestations

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Shmidt, Eugenia ^a   Levitt, Jacob ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ALCOHOL; CARBARIL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIMETICONE; DOXEPIN; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PERMETHRIN; PIMOZIDE; RISPERIDONE; SPINOSAD;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPLICATION SITE ERYTHEMA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROPOD; CIMEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREAM; DELUSIONAL PARASITOSIS; DERMATOLOGIC INFESTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; FOMITE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFESTATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEUTROPENIA; NIT; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PEDICULUS; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; PYODERMA; REVIEW; SCABIES; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUPERINFECTION; TACHYCARDIA;

ANIMALS; BEDBUGS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; LICE INFESTATIONS; MORGELLONS DISEASE; PEDICULUS; SCABIES; SCALP DERMATOSES; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS; URTICARIA;

EID: 84855925629     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.05191.x     Document Type: Review

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