Scabies is a common parasitosis of the skin caused by Sarcoptes scabiei hominis. This infestation occurs in all geographic areas and across all age groups, races, and social classes. Poor economic conditions and lack of proper hygiene are risk factors for the disease. Subcorneal pustular dermatosis is characterized by numerous relapsing pustular eruptions on normal or mildly erythematous skin. ...

A 19-year-old male was admitted to the medical ward with complaints of fever and swelling of the ankle and wrist joints of about two weeks duration. The patient developed hyperkeratotic lesions of the skin over the hands, elbow and back about three weeks after admission. Antistreptolysin O, rheumatoid factor, and Widal tests as well as Chickungunya, brucella, HIV and antinuclear antibodies were...

A 38-year-old man, returned from Ivory Coast 2 months ago and presented with a 3-month history of pruritus exclusively on the scrotum. Itching was continuous during the day and no pruritus was described in his wife and son. Clinical examination of the genitals revealed several nodules on the scrotum, a chancrous lesion was seen on the penis, and multiple excoriations were noted. Dermoscopy exam...

Scabies is a contagious skin disease that causes extremely itching. It is a parasitic disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei and characterized by polymorphous lesions. Vesicular and bullous lesions in cases of scabies are rather rare. Bullous scabies has a pemphigoid presentation. Crusted scabies, also known as Norwegian scabies, is a rare and severe form of the disease. The large number ...

Crusted scabies (CS) is a very contagious rare skin infestation caused by Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis, an obligate human parasite, transmitted by skin-to-skin contact.1 Clinically, it can present with psoriasiform skin lesions in acral distribution with variable whitish scaling. It usually involves the subungueal area with nail hyperkeratosis and dystrophy.2 A 56-year-old man, alcoholic, pres...

The scabies mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, is the causative agent of scabies, a disease that is common among disadvantaged populations and facilitates streptococcal infections with serious sequelae. Previously, we encountered large families of genes encoding paralogues of house dust mite protease allergens with their catalytic sites inactivated by mutation (scabies mite inactivated protease paralogue...

Scabies, infection with Sarcoptes scabiei, is known to be predisposed to by poor body hygiene, environmental exposure, and systemic immunodeficiency. We report the case of an 83-year-old man with Sezary's syndrome who developed scabies limited to the skin of the upper chest, the same location where he had previously received electron beam radiation treatments for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Hist...

Permethrin, in the form of a topical cream, is being increasingly used for community-based programs to control endemic scabies. The development of resistance has reduced the use of pyrethroids for the control of many arthropods of economic and health importance. The best recognized form of pyrethroid resistance, known as knockdown resistance or kdr, has been linked to specific mutations in the ...

Scabies is a disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei that attacks goats. It quite difficult for traditional goat breeders to obtain scabies medicine because of high price, so alternative treatment necessary. This study aims determine effectiveness eco-enzymes as an in The was conducted at Sei Putih Goat Research Workshop, Galang District, from September October 2021. used factorial complet...

Scabies is a contagious skin infestation caused by parasite. In its usual, common form scabies passed on through long-time close physical contact. Though rarely so, infestation, of the profuse and hyperkeratotic form, can also be shared clothes, bed or bathroom linen. causative agent female mite sarcoptes scabiei, called scab mites, small-size parasite, less than half millimeter in length, larg...