Chapter 21, Problem 9R

Summary Introduction

To review:

An inflammatory skin lesion in a patient who had intense skin itching. The microscopic examination of the skin scrapping showed eight legged arthropod.

Introduction:

Scabies is a skin infection caused by the bite of the itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The infection manifest as skin pruritic lesions where the mites breach epidermis and burrow within skin layer and predispose skin for further bacterial infections.