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The prevalence of scabies in Monrovia, Liberia: A population-based survey.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 Scabies is known to be a public health problem in many settings but the majority of recent data is from rural settings in the Pacific. There is a need for high quality data from sub-Saharan Africa and peri-urban settings to inform scale up of scabies ...
Shelui Collinson +10 more
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A Review of Scabies: An Infestation More than Skin Deep
Dermatology, 2018 Human scabies, a common infestation, has a worldwide distribution with a variable impact and presentation depending on the clinical situation. In developed, high-income settings, health institution and residential home outbreaks challenge health and ...
D. Chandler, L. C. Fuller
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Crusted scabies; a 2-year prospective study from the Northern Territory of Australia.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 BackgroundScabies is listed as a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization. Crusted scabies affects vulnerable and immunosuppressed individuals and is highly contagious because of the enormous number of Sarcoptes scabiei mites present ...
Tasnim Hasan +3 more
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A Case of Palmoplantar Vesiculobullous Lesions
JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Ali Abid +3 more
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Pediatric Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Although essential for overall health and wellbeing, little is known about skin health in urban‐living Australian Aboriginal children. This co‐designed, research‐service project aimed to describe skin health and document skin disease frequency in urban‐living Aboriginal children and young people (CYP, i.e., 0–18 years) in Western ...
Bernadette M. Ricciardo +15 more
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Universa Medicina, 2020 BACKGROUND Scabies is a World Health Organization neglected tropical disease common in children in low-and middle-income countries. The prevalence of scabies, especially in tropical countries, is still quite high at more than 200 million cases per year.
Yudhi Wibowo +3 more
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Scooping the Mite: A Simple Curette Technique for Scabies Burrow Sampling
JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Corrado Zengarini +5 more
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The Effect of Physical Disability on Employment
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between physical disability and employment is explored using microdata for older working‐age women in the 2016 Irish Census of Population and historical data on the incidence of infectious diseases. Two‐stage least squares and recursive bivariate probit estimations are employed to account for the potential endogeneity of ...
Irene Mosca
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Scabies is a neglected disease believed to be more prevalent in resource‐poor nations. Published data describing global trends in scabies incidence and prevalence rates and factors associated with global regional differences are limited.
Saptorshi Gupta +4 more
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