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SUBMITTER: Lee E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8688348 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Eunyoung E Park Se Yoon SY Lee Eunjung E Kim Tae Hyong TH
Journal of Korean medical science 20211220 49
The study aimed to elucidate simple and effective risk factors for scabies infection in the medical environment for early detection and prevention of exposure to other patients and medical staff. We conducted a case-control study of patients who were diagnosed with scabies among hospitalized patients between 2008 and 2019 in an acute-care teaching hospital. Each case was matched according to sex and age with two randomly selected controls without scabies during hospitalization. Clinical characte ...[more]