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Pietro Pasquale Cozza1, Valeria Falcomatà2, Antonino De Caridi2
1University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro.
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Dear Editor, Bullous scabies is one of the most rare variant of scabies. Scabies is an itchy skin disease caused by Sarcoptes scabies var. hominis. Recently, it was included in the World Health Organization roadmap for neglected tropical diseases from 2021 to 2030. The prevalence of scabies is very high in poor populations causing elevated mortality rate. Data regarding prevalence reported about 200 million cases of scabies worldwide in 2015. [...].
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