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Pharm D- Clinical Pharmacy Program Third Level Parasitology and virology (PM503)

Geographical distribution:

• It is cosmopolitan; the disease is common among overcrowded, poor

and dirty classes of populations.

Mode of infection: infection takes place by contact with an infected person or by

using his internal clothes.

Diagnosis:

I. Clinically: by the severe itching during night, it's sites distribution in the skin,

and by finding the scratches, vesicles and pustules.

II. Laboratory: by finding the adult mite or it's stages in the tunnels after opening

with a needle under a magnifying lens.

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