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  • Impetigo is one of "those" diseases that does nothing toward making children want to stay in bed!

    A little more conversation (a little less action) katelnorth 2008

  • Impetigo is often found around insect bites, as scratching abrades the skin and allows bacteria to enter.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Impetigo is often found around insect bites, as scratching abrades the skin and allows bacteria to enter.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • The Moses Code cured my Impetigo, then gave my grandma the feline leukemia.

    CULT PROPAGANDA MOVIES ARE FUN 2008

  • Impetigo is often found around insect bites, as scratching abrades the skin and allows bacteria to enter.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Impetigo is often found around insect bites, as scratching abrades the skin and allows bacteria to enter.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Impetigo, a skin infection characterized by pimply, crusty, itchy sores, is common in 2 - and 3-year-olds.

    The Top 10 Health Worries 2008

  • Impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial staph infection that may appear on its own, or as a secondary infection to another skin affliction.

    Gentle Healing for Baby and Child Andrea Candee 2000

  • Impetigo, he believed that the pharmacist could adequately distinguish this from other skin conditions and treat it with antibiotics.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Impetigo can spread easily to other people from the sores or contaminated fingers.

    Chapter 22 1993

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