Hautarzt
Volume 67, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1021-1024

Waves of refugees represent challenge for European dermatologists [Flüchtlingswelle als Herausforderung für europäische Dermatologinnen und Dermatologen] (Article)

Häring N.S.*
  • a Abteilung für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Carinagasse 47, Feldkirch, 6800, Austria

Abstract

With the increasing number of asylum seekers in recent months, European dermatologists have been confronted withrising numbers of patients with formerly rare skin diseases and unusual infectious skin diseases that were previously scarcely observed at our latitude. Thorough examination of the patients medical history, including the routes of travel and the country of origin of the patients, detailed clinical and laboratory examinations, and – if necessary – referral to a special treatment center allow rapid and targeted treatment. © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Author Keywords

Diphtheria of skin Pathogens Asylum seekers Leishmaniasis Scabies

Index Keywords

refugee dermatologist Europe European skin disease human trends Refugees travel laboratory test asylum seeker Skin Diseases, Bacterial Humans clinical examination dermatology patient referral Article Skin Diseases, Parasitic medical history
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84991740178&doi=10.1007%2fs00105-016-3886-z&partnerID=40&md5=f275ac074386dd7a80e20e0fb75c9c57
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-016-3886-z
ISSN: 00178470
Original Language: German