An Epidemiological Study Of Scabies In A Rural Community Of Kashmir

• Main Authors: Banday Abdul Wahid (Author), Shah G.N (Author), Ali Imtiyaz (Author), Ganjoo Vijay (Author), Majid Ganai Abdul (Author), Mattoo G.M (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A randomly selected sample of 7445 persons from North- West rural area of Kashmir were studied and 322 confirmed cases of scabies have been found giving the prevalence rate of 4.33 percent with male preponderance (5.24 percent) and a sex ratio of 1.3: 1. Scabies has been found more prevalent signifi...