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Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017

Scabies is a parasitic skin infection with intense itching. Scabies infection seriously impairs quality of life, while outbreaks in medical institutions cause financial losses. This study aimed to present the annual and seasonal trend of prevalence of scabies in the national population. Scabies case...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jong-Hun, Cheong, Hae-Kwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.4.399
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description Scabies is a parasitic skin infection with intense itching. Scabies infection seriously impairs quality of life, while outbreaks in medical institutions cause financial losses. This study aimed to present the annual and seasonal trend of prevalence of scabies in the national population. Scabies cases were extracted from National Health Insurance Service database and its epidemiologic characteristics were assessed. To analyze the seasonality of scabies occurrence, temperature and humidity were included in the model as weather factors, and the per capita gross national income index was adjusted. The annual prevalence by age group was 0.56–0.69 per 1,000 persons until the age of 40 years and peaked at 3.0–4.1 per 1,000 persons in the age group over 80 years. The number of women diagnosed with scabies has been consistently higher compared to that of men since 2010. Mean number of cases diagnosed as scabies was lowest in spring, approximately 4,000 cases, when the average temperature was less than 5°C at 2 months prior, whereas more than 6,000 scabies cases occurred in autumn when temperatures exceeded 25°C at 2 months prior. This study presents the epidemiological characteristics and seasonality of all cases nationwide over 8 years and will help to establish control policies.
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spelling pubmed-67532982019-09-25 Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017 Kim, Jong-Hun Cheong, Hae-Kwan Korean J Parasitol Original Article Scabies is a parasitic skin infection with intense itching. Scabies infection seriously impairs quality of life, while outbreaks in medical institutions cause financial losses. This study aimed to present the annual and seasonal trend of prevalence of scabies in the national population. Scabies cases were extracted from National Health Insurance Service database and its epidemiologic characteristics were assessed. To analyze the seasonality of scabies occurrence, temperature and humidity were included in the model as weather factors, and the per capita gross national income index was adjusted. The annual prevalence by age group was 0.56–0.69 per 1,000 persons until the age of 40 years and peaked at 3.0–4.1 per 1,000 persons in the age group over 80 years. The number of women diagnosed with scabies has been consistently higher compared to that of men since 2010. Mean number of cases diagnosed as scabies was lowest in spring, approximately 4,000 cases, when the average temperature was less than 5°C at 2 months prior, whereas more than 6,000 scabies cases occurred in autumn when temperatures exceeded 25°C at 2 months prior. This study presents the epidemiological characteristics and seasonality of all cases nationwide over 8 years and will help to establish control policies. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2019-08 2019-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6753298/ /pubmed/31533406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.4.399 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title_full Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title_fullStr Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title_short Epidemiologic Trends and Seasonality of Scabies in South Korea, 2010–2017
title_sort epidemiologic trends and seasonality of scabies in south korea, 2010–2017
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2019.57.4.399
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