Community management of endemic scabies in remote aboriginal communities of northern Australia: low treatment uptake and high ongoing acquisition.

• Main Authors: Sophie La Vincente (Author), Therese Kearns (Author), Christine Connors (Author), Scott Cameron (Author), Jonathan Carapetis (Author), Ross Andrews (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Scabies and skin infections are endemic in many Australian Aboriginal communities. There is limited evidence for effective models of scabies treatment in high prevalence settings. We aimed to assess the level of treatment uptake amongst clinically diagnosed scabies cases and amongst thei...