• Internal medicine journal · Jun 2020

    Complicated skin and soft tissue infections in remote indigenous communities.

    • Lauren Thomas, Asha C Bowen, and TongSteven Y CSYC0000-0002-1368-8356Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Doherty Department, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institu.
    • Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Northern Territory, Australia.
    • Intern Med J. 2020 Jun 1; 50 (6): 752754752-754.

    AbstractThe 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.© 2020 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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