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Scabies and Pediculosis

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Scabies has been known since antiquity. It was among the first diseases to be correlated with a parasitic agent. Although treatment is simple and straightforward, the word scabies often creates pandemonium [1].

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  1. Lawrence Charles Parish
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Jefferson Center for International Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, USA

    Lawrence Charles Parish M.D. (Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Director, Visiting Professor of Dermatology) (Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Director, Visiting Professor of Dermatology)

  2. Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

    Lawrence Charles Parish M.D. (Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Director, Visiting Professor of Dermatology) (Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Director, Visiting Professor of Dermatology)

  3. University of Vienna, 1130, Vienna, Austria

    Friedrich Gschnait M.D. (Associate Professor of Dermatology and Venereology and Chief) (Associate Professor of Dermatology and Venereology and Chief)

  4. Department of Dermatology, City Hospital Vienna-Lainz, 1130, Vienna, Austria

    Friedrich Gschnait M.D. (Associate Professor of Dermatology and Venereology and Chief) (Associate Professor of Dermatology and Venereology and Chief)

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Parish, L.C., Witkowski, J.A. (1989). Scabies and Pediculosis. In: Parish, L.C., Gschnait, F. (eds) Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3528-6_12

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