Outbreak of scabies among preschool children, Accra, Ghana, 2017

• Main Authors: Basil Benduri Kaburi (Author), Donne Kofi Ameme (Author), George Adu-Asumah (Author), Dora Dadzie (Author), Emmanuel Kwame Tender (Author), Smith Vincent Addeh (Author), Theophilus Aryee (Author), Adolphina Addo-Lartey (Author), Samuel Oko Sackey (Author), Fredrick Wurapa (Author), Edwin Andrew Afari (Author), Ernest Kenu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Scabies occurs worldwide with a prevalence between 0.3 and 46.0%. In Ghana, even though a 5.1% proportion of scabies was reported in a retrospective review of skin diseases at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the nationwide prevalence of scabies is unknown. Overall, its burden is...