Epidermal parasitic skin diseases: a neglected category of poverty-associated plagues.
Epidermal parasitic skin diseases (EPSD) are a heterogeneous category of infectious diseases in which parasite--host interactions are confined to the upper layer of the skin. The six major EPSD are scabies, pediculosis (capitis, corporis and pubis), tungiasis and hookworm-related cutaneous larva mig...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 152 - 160 |
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World Health Organization
Feb2009
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