Skin diseases in pediatric patients attending a tertiary dermatology hospital in Northern Tanzania: A cross-sectional study

BMC Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kiprono, Samson K ^a,b   Muchunu, Julia W ^a   Masenga, John E ^a  

^a Pan African Malaria Vector Research Consortium (PAMVERC)   (Tanzania)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Pediatric; Skin diseases

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECTHYMA; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; FURUNCULOSIS; GENODERMATOSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; PAPULAR PRURITIC ERUPTION; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCABIES; SCHOOL CHILD; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN PRURITUS; SKIN TUMOR; TANZANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TINEA CAPITIS; URTICARIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TANZANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84941196253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14715945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12895-015-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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