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Prevalence of scabies and associated factors among children aged 5-14 years in Meta Robi District, Ethiopia.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundScabies is a public health problem that affects children and elders predominantly. Its burden is higher in resource-poor settings, and scabies has a significant impact on the long-term health of children.
Gemechu Ararsa, Emiru Merdassa, Tesfaye Shibiru, Werku Etafa   +3 more
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Cloth sharing with a scabies case considerably explains human scabies among children in a low socioeconomic rural community of Ethiopia

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2023
Background In 2020, scabies were integrated into the WHO roadmap for neglected tropical diseases, aimed at ending the negligence to realize the SDGs.
Fekadie Melese, Asmamaw Malede, Tadesse Sisay, Abraham Geremew, Mesfin Gebrehiwot, Lebasie Woretaw, Getu Atanaw, Jember Azanaw, Mihret Melese, Hailemariam Feleke   +9 more
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Scabies epidemiology in health care centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundScabies is a global health concern disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations such as refugees and asylum seekers. Greece is a main point of entry in Europe for refugees, but epidemiological data on scabies in this population are ...
Christina Louka, Emmanouil Logothetis, Daniel Engelman, Eirini Samiotaki-Logotheti, Spyros Pournaras, Ymkje Stienstra   +5 more
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Scabies as a part of the World Health Organization roadmap for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030: what we know and what we need to do for global control

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2021
Background Scabies is an under-recognized global health problem with an unacceptably high prevalence in many settings worldwide. Fortunately, the World Health Organization (WHO) has formally designated scabies as a neglected tropical disease in 2017, in ...
Amal A. El-Moamly
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Prevalence of scabies worldwide—An updated systematic literature review in 2022

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2023
Scabies is a World Health Organization‐defined neglected tropical disease, with continuously rising incidence worldwide in recent years. The aim of this study was to provide an update of the worldwide prevalence and new treatment approaches of scabies in
S. Schneider, J. Wu, L. Tizek, S. Ziehfreund, A. Zink   +4 more
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Failure of scabies treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

British Journal of Dermatology, 2023
BACKGROUND Treatment failure is considered as an important factor for the increase in scabies incidence over the last decade. However, the regional and temporal differences as well as predictors of therapy failure are unclear.
L. Mbuagbaw, B. Sadeghirad, R. Morgan, D. Mertz, Shahrzad Motaghi, M. Ghadimi, Ifeoluwa Babatunde, Babalwa Zani, Tejanth Pasumarthi, McKenzie Derby, V. N. Kothapudi, N. Palmer, T. Harder, A. Aebischer, F. Reichert   +14 more
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The currently available diagnostic tools and treatments of scabies and scabies variants: An updated narrative review

Medicine, 2023
Scabies is a neglected tropical disease that continues to have global impacts and long-term health consequences. It is caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabei var.
Jacob Al-Dabbagh, Razan Younis, Nemat Ismail   +2 more
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Severe Scabies: A French Multi-centre Study Involving 95 Patients with Crusted and Profuse Disease and Review of the Literature

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2023
The aim of this multi-centre French retrospective study was to identify severe, i.e. crusted and profuse, scabies patients. Records were retrieved from 22 Dermatology or Infectious Diseases departments in the Ile-de-France from January 2009 to January ...
C. Skayem, Majda Askour, C. Gary, F. Hemery, E. Mahé, F. Caux, N. Dupin, P. Senet, A. Greder Belan, B. Hillion, C. Méni, P. Saiag, G. Bellaud, Alexandre Bleibtreu, S. Lariven, D. Bollens, V. Descamps, J. Molina, O. Bouchaud, D. Vittecoq, G. Do-Pham, F. Foulet, F. Botterel, O. Chosidow, C. Bernigaud   +24 more
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A systematic review of scabies transmission models and data to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of scabies interventions. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND:Scabies is a common dermatological condition, affecting more than 130 million people at any time. To evaluate and/or predict the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of scabies interventions, disease transmission modelling can be used ...
Naomi van der Linden, Kees van Gool, Karen Gardner, Helen Dickinson, Jason Agostino, David G Regan, Michelle Dowden, Rosalie Viney   +7 more
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Scabies Affects Quality of Life in Correlation with Depression and Anxiety

Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, 2023
Introduction Scabies is a highly contagious disease affects many people worldwide each year and a major public health problem. A small number of studies have shown that scabies causes impairment in the quality of life in adult patients.
Sema Koç Yıldırım, Neslihan Demirel Öğüt, Ece Erbağcı, Çağrı Öğüt   +3 more
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