Scabies is a contagious parasitic dermatitis that is a significant cause of morbidity, especially outside of the United States. Scabies is diagnosed most often by correlating clinical suspicion with the identification of a burrow. Although scabies should be on the differential for any patient who presents with a pruritic dermatosis, clinicians must consider a wide range of diagnostic possibilit...

BACKGROUND Scabies is a common parasitic infectious disease, and COPD is a major pulmonary disease. However, there have been no previous studies that have investigated the relationship between scabies and COPD. MATERIALS AND METHODS This nationwide population-based study included a total of 3,568 patients with scabies as the study group and 14,255 patients as a control group. We followed up p...

Immunosuppression that is associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1) infection predisposes to hyperinfective strongyloidiasis.1,2 One study suggests that it also predisposes to crusted scabies.3 In a study of Australian aborigines by Mollison and colleagues,4 all 5 cases of crusted scabies were in patients who were seropositive for HTLV-1. In a series by Blas and colleagues3 con...

A study was carried out in theJengka Triangle in Pahang to find out the prevalence and a practical cum effective method of treatment and control of scabies. Scabies was the commonest skin lesion among the 5590 people examined. its prevalence being 11.6%. Both sexes were equally affected. Prevalence was high among children and teenagers, the worst affected being the 10 to 14. 2 to 4, 15 to 19 an...

Scabies, an infestation of the skin caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is most commonly to be found in the developing countries, but it can easily be overlooked in the industrialized countries (1). In Slovenia the annual incidence of scabies counts more than 1000 cases, of which 160 are children (2). The majority of cases are imported by guest workers from certain regions outside Slovenia. T...

Scabies is an ectoparasitic infection caused by Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis in humans. Accurate figures of the prevalence scabies are difficult to obtain, it seems affect around 100–300 million people worldwide. usually transmitted close intimate physical contacts, such as sharing a bed or prolonged hand-holding. mites survive for 24–36 h outside human bodies. Itching most obvious manifestat...

background pediculosis and scabies are infectious diseases that can spread easily in overcrowded places, like prisons. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these diseases in ghezel hesar prison (a male prison). materials and methods for this descriptive study, 1404 prisoners in ghezel hesar prison were included. the prisoners were evaluated clinically by two experienced derm...

Scabies and pediculosis are ubiquitous, contagious, and debilitating parasitic dermatoses. The tendency of high prevalence of pediculosis and scabies among school and preschool age children has prompted us to conduct a head louse and scabies prevalence survey among preschool nursery children in our district. A school-based, crosssectional study was performed, with 1,134 children chosen for eval...

Expression of an esterase gene from Streptomyces scabies is regulated by zinc in both Streptomyces scabies and Streptomyces lividans. A specific protein-binding site was identified on an esterase promoter fragment by using an S-30 extract from S. scabies. The location of the protein-binding site was determined by gel shift assays of promoter deletion fragments and by DNase I footprinting analys...

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...