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Scabies is a pruritic skin disease caused by infestation of the ectoparasite Sarcoptes scabiei.
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Hall, A. (2019). Scabies. In: Atlas of Male Genital Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99750-6_31
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