ALLMedicine™ Scabies Center

Jul 24th, 2021 - Crusted scabies is endemic in some remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia and carries a high mortality risk. Improvement in active case detection (ACD) for crusted scabies is hampered by a lack of evidence about ...

Jul 3rd, 2021 - The purpose of this study is to use the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS-2) to determine the molecular characteristics of Sarcoptes scabiei in rabbits from several areas of East Java. Collecting S. scabiei mites from rabbits with clinical s...

Jul 2nd, 2021 - The World Health Organization's (WHO) Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Road Map for 2021-2030 was recently endorsed by all member states at the World Health Assembly in November 2020. Although only 3 of the 20 NTDs are endemic in Canada (i.e., ech...

Jun 15th, 2021 - Scabies outbreaks are common in nursing homes in the Netherlands. In October 2018, a local public health service (PHS) in The Hague was notified of a new scabies outbreak in a nursing home in that region. The PHS initiated an outbreak investigatio...

Jun 8th, 2021 - An unusual dermoscopic appearance of scabies.|2021|Wolfe C,Rudd E,Ng J,Weir J,Fuller LC,|

Jun 27th, 2008 - The guideline has been prepared by the Japanese Dermatological Association to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment of scabies, as oral therapy became available on August 2006 under health insurance and its clinical use was expected to increase. F...

Mar 23rd, 2020 - The primary study is a double blind, two-arm, 28-day, placebo-controlled study with approximately 120 infested "index" subjects randomized 1:1 to Natroba™ or Placebo. All members of a household (no more than 6 individuals) with a suspected "index"...

Mar 19th, 2020 - This is a double blind, two-arm, 28-day, placebo-controlled study with approximately 120 infested "index" subjects randomized 1:1 to Natroba™ or Placebo. All members of a household (no more than 6 individuals) with a suspected "index" subject must...

Jun 14th, 2019 - Background: Scabies and head lice are both ubiquitous ectoparasitic infections that have been identified as common public health problems in the Pacific Island Country Territories. Mass drug administration using ivermectin is increasingly recognis...

Feb 28th, 2019 - Recent studies have shown that single-dose combination therapy with three antifilarial drugs (Ivermectin [IVE] + DEC + ALB) called IDA is superior to current regimens used in LF elimination and may help accelerate LF elimination. WHO guidelines ha...

Mar 6th, 2018 - This is an open-label prospective community intervention trial to assess the impact of community mass treatment with azithromycin for yaws and ivermectin for scabies, on non-yaws bacterial skin infections. Communities will be randomised to receive...

Jul 14th, 2021 - Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale ...

Jun 21st, 2021 - The 5-year-old had nodded off while waiting for her 10-year-old brother to be treated for scabies at the clinic in the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, which she currently calls home. Nurse Chai-Chih Huang asked if she wanted to be ta...

Apr 21st, 2021 - HAVANA (Reuters) - Dayana Rodriguez says her son is overwhelmed with scabies but she has not been able to find any of the treatments prescribed by their doctor at the poorly-stocked pharmacies in Havana so she is now turning to a herbal remedy ins...

Mar 28th, 2020 - When to suspect mycosis fungoides “Mycosis fungoides is a great masquerader,” the dermatologist observed. For that reason, it deserves to be included in the differential diagnosis of an atypical psoriasiform or eczematoid rash, any new-onset rash.

Jan 28th, 2020 - 3 diagnostic missteps to avoid Misdiagnosis is often due to an overreliance on the clinical history without performing an adequate physical exam. In such cases, the physician often diagnoses a form of dermatitis as the cause of pruritic rash.