Human scabies acquired from a pet puppy.

J Egypt Soc Parasitol

Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Published: August 1994

Scabies is a very old contagious skin disease caused by itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei which burrows into the stratum corneum. Nowadays, human scabies is one of the health problems among the school children. This paper dealt with a case of scabies in a preschool aged child who acquired the infestation from his pet puppy.

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