Stigmatization and Mental Health Impact of Chronic Pediatric Skin Disorders.

Importance: Chronic skin disorders in children frequently are visible and can cause stigmatization. However, the extent of stigmatization from chronic skin disease and association with mental health needs further study.

Objective: To examine the extent of stigma, dependence on disease visibility and severity, and association with mental health and quality of life (QOL) in chronic pediatric skin disease.

Large-scale spatial drivers of avian schistosomes in Northern Michigan inland lakes.

Avian schistosomes are snail-borne trematode parasites ( spp.) that can cause a nasty skin rash in humans when their cercariae mistake us for their normal bird hosts. We sought to investigate drivers of the spatial distribution of cercaria abundance throughout Northern Michigan lakes.