Exploration of a simplified clinical examination for scabies to support public health decision-making.

• Main Authors: Michael Marks (Author), Daniel Engelman (Author), Lucia Romani (Author), Daniel Mason (Author), Oliver Sokana (Author), Mike Kama (Author), Margot Whitfeld (Author), Andrew C Steer (Author), John Kaldor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

<h4>Introduction</h4>In most settings, the diagnosis of scabies is reliant on time-consuming and potentially intrusive clinical examination of all accesible regions of skin. With the recent recognition of scabies as a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization there is a...