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Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • Cellulitis and other bacterial skin infections
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Cellulitis_and_other_bacterial_skin_infections/
    , eczematous skin, chickenpox, etc. although the portal of entry of organisms is often not seen Impetigo … children.  Causative organisms are GAS and  S. aureus May be associated with scabies Staphylococcal scalded … are at risk of Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) Diagnosis Antibiotic Total duration Comments Impetigo …
  • Antimicrobial guidelines
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Antimicrobial_guidelines/
    Dimeticone 4% lotion Repeat after one week Impetigo Group A streptococci S. aureus Mupirocin 2% ointment top … tetanus vaccine Scabies Sarcoptes scabiei Permethrin 5% cream top One application from neck down; leave … or infection with MRSA (particularly recent) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Pacific Islander child 4 …