March 8, 2012 — Permethrin may be slightly more effective than ivermectin in the treatment of scabies. In a study involving 272 patients, a single dose of ivermectin provided a cure rate of 85.9% at 2 ...

Ivermectin cream was as effective as permethrin cream and more effective than oral ivermectin in treating patients with scabies, according to study data. Researchers in India studied 315 patients ...

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BRITAIN is facing an 'alarming' shortage of the most widely used scabies medicines, as cases of the Victorian disease surge. Scabies is a highly contagious condition caused by mites burrowing into the ...

A potassium hydroxide (KOH) examination of scales from his abdomen reveals definite scabietic elements (Figure 3), confirming the diagnosis of scabies. Images of these findings are shown to the ...

When raised, itchy red bumps appeared between his thumb and fingers, Benjo Aptroot knew immediately that it was scabies. ‘It looked like eczema, but I knew it was scabies because a friend I saw a lot ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — An outbreak of scabies at a section of the Utah State Correctional Facility forced the closure of certain areas to visitors and the quarantine of inmates in the affected unit.