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Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Ectoparasites

• Australian Family Physician
  • Scabies: A clinical update [2017]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Scabies: A concise synopsis [2024]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Scabies in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia: A narrative review [2021]

• Queensland Health
  • Scabies

Belgium

• Archives of Public Health
  • Increasing trend of scabies in Belgium, 2000-2023 [2025]

Canada

• BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Scabies

• Canada's Drug Agency
  • Ivermectin for Parasitic Skin Infections of Scabies: A Review of Comparative Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]

Croatia

• Slovenian Journal of Public Health
  • An Increasing Scabies Incidence in Croatia: A Call for Coordinated Action Among Dermatologists, Physicians and Epidemiologists [2020]

Ethiopia

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Prevalence and associated factors of scabies in Ethiopia: systematic review and Meta-analysis [2020]

Europe

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • European Guideline for the Management of Scabies [2017]

Fiji

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Costs of mass drug administration for scabies in Fiji [2022]

Fiji, Solomon Islands

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • National control programs for scabies: Experiences from Fiji and Solomon Islands [2026]

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Scabies: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment [2021]

• Infection
  • The national burden of scabies in Germany: a population-based approach using Internet search engine data [2022]

Greece

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Scabies epidemiology in health care centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece [2022]

Hong Kong

• Centre for Health Protection
  • Scabies Management [2019]

India

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Scabies [2022]

International

• Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Trends in prevalence and incidence of scabies from 1990 to 2017: findings from the global Burden of disease study 2017 [2020]

• International Alliance for the Control of Scabies
  • The 2020 International Alliance for the Control of Scabies Consensus Criteria for the Diagnosis of Scabies [2020]
  • Consensus criteria for the diagnosis of scabies: A Delphi study of international experts [2018]

• Medicine
  • The current available diagnostic tools and treatments of scabies and scabies variants: An updated narrative review [2023]

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Scabies

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Burden of scabies in displacement settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis among forcibly displaced populations [2025]
  • The disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), prevalence and incidence of scabies, 1990-2021: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2024]
  • A framework for scabies control [2021]

• Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Scabies: An updated review from epidemiology to current controversies and future perspectives [2025]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Tracing the Itch: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Scabies Rates and Its Risk Factors Using the Global Burden of Disease 2021 Data [2025]
  • Prevalence and determinants of scabies: A global systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
  • Scabies as a Neglected Tropical Disease: A Comprehensive Review of Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis and Treatment [2025]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Scabies

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Scabies (sarcoptes scabiei)

Italy

• Dermatology Reports
  • Free access to medications for scabies treatment in Italy: a call to action and the need to evaluate its clinical and epidemiological impact [2026]

Kiribati

• Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
  • Burden of scabies and bacterial skin infection in Kiribati: results of a national population-based survey 2023 [2025]

Malaysia

• Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Guideline for management of scabies in adults and children [2015]

Netherlands

• PLoS ONE
  • Including patient experiences from online sources in guidelines: A natural language processing study on scabies [2026]
  • Increasing incidence of reported scabies infestations in the Netherlands, 2011–2021 [2022]

New Zealand

• Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand
  • Scabies: diagnosis and management [2022]

Norway

• EuroSurveillance
  • Increase of scabies infestations, Norway, 2006 to 2018 [2019]

Republic of Korea

• Ewha Medical Journal
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of scabies in Korea: Part 2. Treatment and prevention — a secondary publication [2024]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of scabies in Korea: Part 1. Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis — a secondary publication [2024]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Prevalence of scabies in long-term care hospitals in South Korea [2020]

Samoa

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Scabies prevalence after ivermectin-based mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis, Samoa 2018-2019 [2023]

Singapore

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Management of scabies [2019]

Solomon Islands

• Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Health-related quality of life impact of scabies in the Solomon Islands [2022]

South-East Asia, Western Pacific

• BMC Public Health
  • Estimation of scabies prevalence using simplified criteria and mapping procedures in three Pacific and southeast Asian countries [2021]

Spain

• Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas
  • Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) expert recommendations for the management of sexual transmitted parasitosis. Scabies, and pediculosis pubis [2024]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Rising scabies incidence in Spain: a retrospective observational analysis of four national data sources, 2011 to 2023 [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Scabies in Spain? A comprehensive epidemiological picture [2021]

Türkiye

• International Journal of Dermatology
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of scabies [2024]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV National Guideline on the Management of Scabies in adults 2025 [2025]

• British Association of Dermatologists
  • Management of scabies in the UK [2023]

• Primary Care Dermatology Society
  • Scabies

• Right Decisions
  • Scabies therapeutic management, Acute & Primary Care

• UK Health Security Agency
  • Scabies: management advice for health professionals

United States

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Scabies - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Scabies | CDC Yellow Book 2024
  • Scabies

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Target Product Profiles (TPP) for the development of new diagnostic tools to start and stop mass drug administration for scabies [2022]
  • Scabies: Fact sheet

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • WHO informal consultation on a framework for scabies control, meeting report World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines, 19–21 February 2019 [2020]
  • Scabies

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