Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of scabies

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-431

  Shimose, Luis ^a,b   Munoz Price, L Silvia ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crotamiton; Diagnosis; Ivermectin; Lindane; Malation; Oral; Permethrin; Sarcoptes scabiei; Scabies; Topical; Treatment; Video dermatoscopy

Indexed keywords

CROTAMITON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PERMETHRIN;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BURROW INK TEST; CLASSIC SCABIES; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTACT DERMATITIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LICHEN (DISEASE); MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NEUROTOXICITY; NODULAR SCABIES; NONHUMAN; NORWEGIAN SCABIES; PANAMA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PAPULE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SEPTICEMIA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PRURITUS; SLEEP DISORDER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SUPERINFECTION; VIDEO DERMATOSCOPY;

EID: 84884593103     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-013-0354-0     Document Type: Review

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