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Published on: September 16, 2022
Complicated skin and soft tissue infections in remote indigenous communities
Lauren Thomas1, Asha C Bowen2,3,4, Steven Y C Tong4,5
1Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Northern Territory, Australia.
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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