Scabies
"Scabies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A contagious cutaneous inflammation caused by the bite of the mite SARCOPTES SCABIEI. It is characterized by pruritic papular eruptions and burrows and affects primarily the axillae, elbows, wrists, and genitalia, although it can spread to cover the entire body.
| Descriptor ID |
D012532
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.858.211.480.708 C17.800.838.775.800
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Scabies" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Scabies" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scabies" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Vijayan V, Marrero E, Gaspar A, Wisdom C, Honeycutt MD, Linam WM. Outbreak of scabies in a neonatal intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 05; 40(5):613-614.
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Elwood H, Berry RS, Gardner JM, Shalin SC. Superficial fibrin thrombi ? and other findings: a review of the histopathology of human scabietic infections. J Cutan Pathol. 2015 May; 42(5):346-52.