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  2. Scabies - Wikipedia

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    A study has demonstrated that scabies is markedly reduced in populations taking ivermectin regularly; [51] the drug is widely used for treating scabies and other parasitic diseases, particularly among the poor and disadvantaged in the tropics, beginning with the developer Merck providing the drug at no cost to treat onchocerciasis from 1987. [52]

  3. Sarcoptes scabiei - Wikipedia

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    Sarcoptes is a genus of skin parasites, and part of the larger family of mites collectively known as "scab mites". They are also related to the scab mite Psoroptes, also a mite that infests the skin of domestic animals. Sarcoptic mange affects domestic animals and similar infestations in domestic fowls cause the disease known as "scaly leg".

  4. Here’s How to Tell If You Have Chigger Bites or Scabies - AOL

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    Infants and children who have scabies may be tired and irritable from lack of sleep, since scratching at night can keep them awake, and unlike adults, children often get blisters or large nodules ...

  5. Parasitology - Wikipedia

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    One of the largest fields in parasitology, medical parasitology is the subject that deals with the parasites that infect humans, the diseases caused by them, clinical picture and the response generated by humans against them. It is also concerned with the various methods of their diagnosis, treatment and finally their prevention & control.

  6. What Is Scabies? This Skin Infestation Causes an Itchy ... - AOL

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    The condition can be passed from person to person through sexual or close skin-to-skin contact.

  7. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Tetracycline-class antibiotics No Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) Respiratory syncytial virus infection A variety of laboratory tests Treatment for RSV infection is focused primarily on supportive care. Under research [33] Rhinosporidium seeberi: Rhinosporidiosis: No Rhinovirus: Rhinovirus infection No Rickettsia species Rickettsial infection No

  8. Parasitism - Wikipedia

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    A few years later, in 1687, the Italian biologists Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo and Diacinto Cestoni described scabies as caused by the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei, marking it as the first disease of humans with a known microscopic causative agent. [133] Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for showing that the malaria parasite is transmitted by ...

  9. What everyone should know about antibiotics, according ... - AOL

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    Antibiotics are some of the most powerful tools in medicine. They’re prescribed to treat a variety of infections caused by bacteria, such as urinary tract infections, most ear infections, strep ...