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  2. Scabies - Wikipedia

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    Scabies is caused by infection with the female mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis, an ectoparasite. [3] The mites burrow into the skin to live and deposit eggs. [3] The symptoms of scabies are due to an allergic reaction to the mites. [2] Often, only between 10 and 15 mites are involved in an infection. [2]

  3. Sarcoptes scabiei - Wikipedia

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    The scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis goes through four stages in its lifecycle: egg, larva, nymph, and adult. Upon infesting a human host, the adult female burrows into the stratum corneum (outermost layer of skin), where she deposits two or three eggs per day. These oval eggs are 0.1–0.15 mm (0.0039–0.0059 in) long and hatch as ...

  4. Mange - Wikipedia

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    Mange (/ ˈ m eɪ n dʒ /) is a type of skin disease caused by parasitic mites. [1] Because various species of mites also infect plants, birds and reptiles, the term "mange", or colloquially "the mange", suggesting poor condition of the skin and fur due to the infection, is sometimes reserved for pathological mite-infestation of nonhuman mammals.

  5. Streptomyces scabiei - Wikipedia

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    Streptomyces scabiei (also wrongly named Streptomyces scabies) [1] is a streptomycete bacterium species found in soils around the world. [2] Unlike most of the 500 or so Streptomyces species it is a plant pathogen causing corky lesions to form on tuber and root crops as well as decreasing the growth of seedlings.

  6. Benzyl benzoate - Wikipedia

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    Benzyl benzoate is an effective and inexpensive topical treatment for human scabies. [7] It has vasodilating and spasmolytic effects and is present in many asthma and whooping cough drugs. [8] It is also used as an excipient in some testosterone-replacement medications (like Nebido) for treating hypogonadism. [9]

  7. Acariasis - Wikipedia

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    Sarcoptes in humans is especially severe symptomatically, and causes the condition scabies noted above. [citation needed] Another genus of mite which causing itching but rarely causes hair loss because it burrows only at the keratin level, is Cheyletiella. Various species of this genus of mite also affect a wide variety of mammals, including ...

  8. Cooties - Wikipedia

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    In Serbia the game is known as šuga; the word means scabies. Cooties game A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age.

  9. Common scab - Wikipedia

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    Common scab is a plant disease of root and tuber crops caused by a small number of Streptomyces species, specifically S. scabies, S. acidiscabies, S. turgidiscabies and others. Common scab mainly affects potato ( Solanum tuberosum ), but can also cause disease on radish ( Raphanus sativus ), parsnip ( Pastinaca sativa ), beet ( Beta vulgaris ...

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