“…Similar to the patients with drug-eruption-like scabies surrepticius who developed Staphylococcus aureus infection or colonization, the clinical presentation of scabies can be altered by the concurrent presence of bacterial or viral infection. The morbidity of the mite infestation can be significantly increased when secondary infection of the lesions by either Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes occurs [4,10,14,19,25,26,50]. Scabies herpeticum-referring to mite-related lesions that have become infected by herpes simplex virus-can appear as superficial ulcers.…”