Climate change and skin disease: A review of the English-language literature

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 656-661

  Andersen, Louise K ^a   Hercogová, Jana ^b   Wollina, Uwe ^c   Davis, Mark D P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHTHOUS ULCER; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ECZEMA; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; INFESTATION; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MYCOSIS; PHAKOMATOSIS; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PRURIGO; PSORIASIS; PUBLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; RASH; REVIEW; SCABIES; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN APPENDAGE DISEASE; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WEATHER; XEROSIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84861316166     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.05258.x     Document Type: Review

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