Skin infections and infestations in Abor
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Bart J Currie; Jonathan R Carapetis
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## SUMMARY The most important skin infections in Aboriginal communities in central and northern Australia are scabies and streptococcal pyoderma. Scabies is endemic in many remote Aboriginal communities, with prevalences in children up to 50%. The cycles of scabies transmission underlie much of the