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Skin disorders among school children in rural Tanzania and an assessment of therapeutic needs.

Ferié J, Dinkela A, Mbata M, Idindili B, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Hatz C

Department of Medicine and Diagnostics, SwissTropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. jferie@gmx.de

Eight hundred and twenty primary school children were examined to assess the spectrum and prevalence of skin diseases in rural Tanzania. In all, 55% of the children had one or several skin disorders, but only 33% of all diagnoses in a cluster of 14% of the children required treatment. Tinea versicolor was found in 26.2%, pyoderma and dermatophytoses in less than 10%, while few children had scabies or eczematous lesions.

Published 12 October 2006 in Trop Doct, 36(4): 219-21.
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