S Guerci, E Cappellaro, M Contratti, A Corna, M C Fazi, S Orini, G Sassi, S Tedoldi, T Vaccaro, S Volpini, M Colombo
Scabies is an itchy-parasitic cutaneous infection; it can spread from person to person directly or through clothing, sheets or mattresses. The incidence had fallen a lot during the last ten years, but recently it is growing up again; this is due to immigration of people coming from countries where local hygienic and social conditions are very poor. In this contest it is more frequent to observe the infection in pediatric age, sometimes also newborn. In this particular case the diagnosis can be more difficult because the clinical manifestations are different from pathognomonic lesions we usually see in adult age...
June 2010: Minerva Pediatrica