Prescribing Antibiotics for Impetigo
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs
- Vol. 36 (3) , 364-369
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-198836030-00006
Abstract
Impetigo, a contagious superficial pyogenic infection of the skin, can be treated orally or topically. Nowadays oral erythromycin is the treatment of choice, although flucloxacillin is preferred in...Keywords
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