Identifying the time to cure for patients with classic scabies after infection control intervention in acute care hospital settings

Jebyung Park; Se Yoon Park; Jaijun Han; So Young Lee; Gil Eun Kim; Yeon Su Jeong; Jin Hwa Kim; Eun Jung Lee; Eunyoung Lee; Tae Hyong Kim

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2018.10.007

Identifying the time to cure for patients with classic scabies after infection control intervention in acute care hospital settings

Am J Infect Control. 2019 May;47(5):588-590. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.10.007. Epub 2018 Dec 5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 30527284
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.10.007

Abstract

Scabies is a re-emerging parasitic disease, particularly in hospitalized patients. This is a retrospective study analyzing adult patients with scabies admitted to a referral university hospital between 2008 and 2018. All patients were treated an average of 3times using scabicides; the median isolation period and time to cure were 14 and 15days, respectively.

Keywords: Dermatologists; Infectivity; Isolation; Outbreaks; Permethrin; Retreatment.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
Female
Humans
Infection Control / statistics & numerical data*
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Scabies / drug therapy*