Scabies: Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology
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Human scabies is an intensely pruritic skin infestation caused by the host-specific mite Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis. A readily treatable infestation, scabies remains common primarily because of diagnostic difficulty, inadequate treatment of patients and their contacts, and improper environmental control measures.
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Scabies: a problem that can really get under your skin
Scabies is a highly contagious skin disease that causes pimple-like sores or rashes on the skin. Scabies sores caused by the sarcoptes scabei mite
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Scabies: Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology
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