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Scabies: An Itchy Twitch

One of the most common and contagious infectious dermatological pathology is scabies. It is caused by tiny mites and spreads via skin-to-skin contact. It is most prevalent in children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Once diagnosed, the individual and all household contacts must be treated....

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Autores principales: Shoaib, Hasan, O'Bryan, Collin J, Rapoport, Eliot, Phan, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733453
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25120
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description One of the most common and contagious infectious dermatological pathology is scabies. It is caused by tiny mites and spreads via skin-to-skin contact. It is most prevalent in children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Once diagnosed, the individual and all household contacts must be treated. Scabies has conventionally been considered a disease of the developing world and is prevalent in patients from a low socioeconomic status. Herein, we present an interesting case from a tertiary care hospital in North America.
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spelling pubmed-92057502022-06-21 Scabies: An Itchy Twitch Shoaib, Hasan O'Bryan, Collin J Rapoport, Eliot Phan, Peter Cureus Dermatology One of the most common and contagious infectious dermatological pathology is scabies. It is caused by tiny mites and spreads via skin-to-skin contact. It is most prevalent in children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Once diagnosed, the individual and all household contacts must be treated. Scabies has conventionally been considered a disease of the developing world and is prevalent in patients from a low socioeconomic status. Herein, we present an interesting case from a tertiary care hospital in North America. Cureus 2022-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9205750/ /pubmed/35733453 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25120 Text en Copyright © 2022, Shoaib et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shoaib, Hasan
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Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
title Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
title_full Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
title_fullStr Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
title_full_unstemmed Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
title_short Scabies: An Itchy Twitch
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topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733453
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25120
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