title: Managing skin infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Skin infections are a cause of significant morbidity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article gives an overview of some of the issues to consider when managing a patient with a skin infection. These issues may impact on completion of treatment and development of complications in the long term.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Management should consist of treatment of the patient through medication and also general measures for the patient, their family and the community as a whole. There are significant health and socioeconomic burdens placed on communities as a result of the high rate of skin disease in some settings.
authors.affiliation: MBBS, FRACGP, FACCRM, MPH+TM, DRANZCOG, Senior Medical Officer, Primary Health Care, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Cairns, QLD.
authors.forename: Tonia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marquardt
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control; D006266:Health Education; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D055118:Medication Adherence; D012008:Recurrence; D012532:Scabies / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000635:transmission; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents