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Skin diseases in the tropics
Author(s) -
Barnetson Ross StC
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb137869.x
Subject(s) - cutaneous larva migrans , sporotrichosis , tropical disease , dermatology , cutaneous leishmaniasis , tropics , buruli ulcer , medicine , tuberculosis , malaria , leishmaniasis , disease , biology , pathology , helminthiasis , larva migrans , ecology
Australian physicians may encounter a number of tropical skin diseases. Migrants or visitors may travel here with a skin disease, or people living in the tropical or subtropical regions of Australia may develop skin conditions. The most important of these are cutaneous leishmaniasis, cutaneous amoebiasis, tinea imbricata, favus, sporotrichosis, chromomycosis, cutaneous tuberculosis, Buruli ulcer, cutaneous larva migrans and dracontiasis.