When should you treat scabies empirically?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 570-572

  Page, Tanya L ^a   Eiff, M Patrice ^a   Judkins, Dolores Zegar ^a   Walker, Barbara ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; PRURITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SCABIES; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN BIOPSY; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN; PRURITUS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES;

EID: 34447105127     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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