Improved public health measures targeting bacterial skin infections are needed to reduce this high burden of skin infections in Western Australia
The association between scabies and skin sores is highly significant and indicates a causal relationship
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The young age of the first infection with skin sores and scabies reflects the high disease burden in these communities
When health organisations in the north-west of WA requested urgent action to address the region’s high rate of skin infections, Dr Asha Bowen answere…
Prevalence of skin sores and scabies in remote Australian Aboriginal communities remains unacceptably high, with Group A Streptococcus (GAS) the domi…
Scabies and impetigo are common in Timor-Leste, with very high prevalence of scabies in the rural district of Ermera
Researchers have developed the first National Healthy Skin Guideline to address record rates of skin infections in Australia’s Indigenous communities.
In a WA first, researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have shown that Aboriginal babies are 22.5 times more likely to be treated for…
Skin infections are a significant cause of severe disease, requiring hospitalization in Western Australian children, particularly with Aboriginal chi…