Complicated skin and soft tissue infections in remote indigenous communities.

Internal Medicine Journal
Lauren ThomasSteven Y C Tong

Abstract

The burden and consequences of skin infections for remote living indigenous people are high. While skin infections are recognised as an antecedent to conditions such as acute rheumatic fever in children, data are limited concerning skin infection complications such as cellulitis, abscesses and osteomyelitis in older children and adults. In a 1-year retrospective audit of 439 patients presenting to two remote health clinics, 330/439 (75%) patients presented with a skin infection and 18 (4%) developed a complication.

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May 9, 2008·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·Steven Y C TongBart J Currie
Oct 12, 2012·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·Asha C BowenJonathan R Carapetis
Nov 28, 2014·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·Loren G MillerRobert S Daum
Dec 2, 2015·Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society·Daniel EngelmanSteven Y C Tong
Mar 22, 2019·Internal Medicine Journal·Lauren ThomasSteven Y C Tong
Jun 4, 2019·The Medical Journal of Australia·Asha C BowenSteven Yc Tong

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Jun 15, 2021·The Medical Journal of Australia·Jeffrey W Cannon, Asha C Bowen

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