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Pinning Down Skin Infections

Diagnosis Treatment and Prevention in Wrestlers

William L. Dienst Jr Dr Dienst is a family physician working in the emergency department at Mid Valley Hospital in Omak, Washington, and at Okanogan-Douglass District Hospital in Brewster, Washington. He is a former wrestling team physician at Oak Harbor (Washington) High School.Correspondence[email protected]
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Lowell Dightman Dr Dightman is a faculty member and director of Outpatient Services at St Peter's Family Practice Residency in Olympia, Washington, and wrestling team physician at Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington.
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Mark S. Dworkin Dr Dworkin is a medical epidemiologist and internal medicine/infectious diseases specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He conducted an epidemiologic investigation of the outbreak of herpes gladiatorum described in this article.
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Robert K. Thompson Dr Thompson is a family physician at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound in Olympia and a team physician at Olympia High School and North Thurston High School in Olympia.
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Warren B. Howe Dr Howe, the Emergencies Series editor, is the team physician at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. He is an editorial board member of THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE.
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Pages 45-56 | Published online: 19 Jun 2015

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