Prevalence and determinants of scabies: A global systematic review and meta‐analysis
Saptorshi Gupta, Simon Thornley, Arthur Morris, Gerhard Sundborn, Cameron Grant · 2024
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Saptorshi Gupta and co-authors pool in a 2024 review the world data on scabies, a neglected itch caused by skin mites. It strikes hardest in poor and crowded places, yet global counts were thin. They gathered seventy studies from the years 2000 to 2024 and merged their rates.
About twelve in a hundred people had scabies in the pooled data, with Oceania highest. Close contact with an itchy household member was the strongest risk, by far. No soap, shared beds and clothes, and rare bathing also raised the odds. Wealth at the country level, by contrast, showed no firm link to rates.
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| CREATOR | Saptorshi Gupta, Simon Thornley, Arthur Morris, Gerhard Sundborn, Cameron Grant |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |