Clinicoparasitological Studies on Scabies

Abstract

An attempt was made to detect the percent of parasites in a selective number of cases suffering from clinical scabies, the different stag of parasites and their number were noted. Certain peculiarities of the manifestation of the disease noted wtre (i) involvement of peculiar sites specially in children such as palms, soles, face (including fore-head), neck, scalp and earlobe, (2) associated impetigo in a large number of patients and (3) middle class, upper middle class and rich people were also affected.