Features of human scabies in resource-limited settings: The Cameroon case

BMC Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kouotou, Emmanuel Armand ^a,b,c   Nansseu, Jobert Richie N ^b,d   Sieleunou, Isidore ^e   Defo, Defo ^b,f   Bissek, Anne Cécile Zoung Kanyi ^b,c   Ndam, Elie Claude Ndjitoyap ^b,c  

^a District Hospital Biyem Assi   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c YAOUNDÉ GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^d Department of Paediatrics   (Cameroon)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Contagiousness; Human scabies; Post scabies pruritus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CAMEROON; CHILD; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATOLOGIST; ECZEMATIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMPETIGINIZATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POST SCABIES PRURITUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; PRURITUS; SCABIES; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFANT; NEWBORN; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SCABIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937695990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14715945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12895-015-0031-0     Document Type: Article

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