1. Scabies a contagious skin disease caused by infestation and sensitization to mites Sarcoptes scabiei hominis and product variants.
2. Scabies transmission can occur either directly or indirectly.
3. Scabies is the great imitator, where there are clinical symptoms which resemble to some other skin diseases. And lesions typical of this disease form, which papul itching or vesicle, and the presence of the tunnel (Burrow).
4. Scabies diagnosis can be established by a careful anamnesis (history of contact with other patients, pruritus nocturna), physical examination (lesions of the typical predileksi Glan penis and scrotum in males and mammary areola in women), and also with laboratory tests appropriate (microscopic examination, the ink test, or biopsy tissue).
5. Permethrin 5% is still the treatment of choice of scabies current treatment.
6. The success of therapy and prognosis of healing depends on patient compliance in therapy, the patient's ability to maintain personal hygiene and environment, as well as extensive treatment in the family and the people who frequent contact with patients.
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