Combined antibiotic/corticosteroid cream in the empirical treatment of moderate to severe eczema: Friend or foe?

Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 861-864

  Hon, Kam Lun ^a   Wang, Shuxin Susan ^a   Lee, Kenneth K C ^b   Lee, Vivian W Y ^a   Leung, Ting Fan ^a   Ip, Margaret ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FUSICORT; FUSIDATE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILDRENS DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; SCORAD; SKIN WATER LOSS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FUSIDIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866172540     PISSN: 15459616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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