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Bacterial skin infections and scabies disproportionately affect children in resource-poor countries as well as underprivileged children in high-income countries. Atopic dermatitis is a common childhood dermatosis that predisposes to bacterial skin infection.

We still do not have a RF vaccine, although the recent announcement that the Australian and New Zealand governments are jointly sponsoring a program to fast...

The median number of presentations per child in the first year of life was 21 with multiple reasons for presentation.

Providing remote communities with access to chlorinated swimming pools has been considered as a possible strategy for reducing ear and skin infection rates...

Scabies and impetigo infections are under-recognised and hence under-treated by clinicians

The evidence derived from the review will be used to inform the development of guidelines for the management of skin infections in resource-limited settings

The benefits that swimming pools may bring to to ear and eye health in remote Aboriginal communities remains unresolved

Given the ongoing mortality and morbidity from GAS infections, we must address more effectively the treatment and prevention of GAS impetigo and pharyngitis

Scabies is endemic in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with 69% of infants infected in the first year of life.

These data highlight the importance of recognising Sporotrichosis in children outside an outbreak setting