Epidemiologic Study on Animals Possibly Causing Skin Diseases in Korea.
- Author:
Kwang Soo KIM
;
Yong Kook KIM
;
Jae Woo PARK
;
Shil SHIN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Animals*;
Diagnosis;
Ecosystem;
Epidemiologic Studies*;
Humans;
Korea*;
Skin Diseases*;
Skin*
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1980;18(6):545-559
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We have encountered many patients with dermatologic problems caused by animals, but there are not so many systematized literature about them in Korea. Since these causative animals are different from foreign animals in their distribution and habitat, there have been much difficulties in making diagnosis and in studying them based on foreign literature. We have undertaken this study to get the basic material for the possible causative animals in Korea by comparing with foreign literature, searching out the books of zoological claasification, and through personal contacts. One hundred and five species are found to be identical with the species reported in foreign literature, but 324 species are not, although they could be placed in the same genus.
