Seborrheic dermatitis is an inflammatory condition leading to scaly skin rashes. It can appear on many areas of the body, including the chest. While it can affect people of any age, it is most common ...

Scabies occurs when tiny parasitic mites called Sarcoptes scabiei burrow into the upper layer of skin, triggering an intense allergic reaction that causes severe itching and a distinctive rash. While ...

One way you can get scabies is if you’ve been in close physical contact with another person who has it. That close physical contact could happen when you live in the same household or have sex with ...

Peta-Anne Zimmerman is affiliated with the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control, the Global Outbreak alert and Response Network, and the Collaborative for the Advancement of ...

Scabies is a skin condition caused by human mites called Sarcoptes scabiei. The most common symptoms include a pimple-like rash and severe itching that gets worse at night. Areas of affected skin may ...

If you have red, itchy rashes on your skin, you may wonder if you have eczema or scabies. They can look similar, but they are different conditions. Scabies happens to about 200 to 300 million people ...

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 ...

Michael Head has received funding for scabies research from the University of Southampton Strategic Development Fund, and was part of a scabies care home study funded by the Health Protection Agency.