The explosion in scabies cases during
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            ‐19 pandemic

Kutlu, Ömer; Aktaş, Habibullah

doi:10.1111/dth.13662

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“…Unlike our study suggesting a decreased interest in scabies and pruritus, recent studies have reported an outbreak of scabies in Spain and Turkey 22,23 . The increase of scabies was attributed to the increased transmission due to closer contact among family members and delay in diagnosis during the lockdown.…”

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Public interest in dermatologic symptoms, conditions, treatments, and procedures during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from Google Trends

Esen-Salman

Akın-Çakıcı

Kardeş

et al. 2021

Dermatologic Therapy

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had substantial effect both on daily life and medical practice. Internet data have been used to analyze the trends in public interest in various medical conditions and treatments. The aim of this study is to analyze the public interest in dermatologic symptoms, conditions, treatments, and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Google Trends was queried for a total of 120 dermatological search queries. Three periods of 2020 ([March 15-May 9], [May

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Public interest in dermatologic symptoms, conditions, treatments, and procedures during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from Google Trends

Esen-Salman

Akın-Çakıcı

Kardeş

et al. 2021

Dermatologic Therapy

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“…The logarithmic increasing number of scabies in the following days of COVID‐19 pandemic may be due to temporary moving from urban to rural areas, increasing close contact as a result of the stay at home orders and increasing hospital bed turnover because of COVID‐10 cases. Nevertheless, social and cultural differences among countries can lead to different disease processes 15 . In this study, we found that contact dermatitis and xerosis cutis have similar odds ratios.…”

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Relative changes in the pattern of diseases presenting in dermatology outpatient clinic in the era of theCOVID‐19 pandemic

Kutlu

Metin

2020

Dermatologic Therapy

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As an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, there were changes in the number of patients who attended the dermatology outpatient clinics. We aimed to investigate the change profiles of dermatologic diseases in the first and second months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey by comparing with the corresponding period of the previous year. The total number and diagnosis of patients, who attended a tertiary care hospital for the dermatology outpatient clinic between 1 April 2020 and 31 May 2020, were included in this study. These data were compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. The percentage of the patients with scabies, contact dermatitis, psoriasis, pityriasis rosea, urticaria, and alopecia areata were statistically significantly increased a month after the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, while the percentage of patients with scabies, alopecia areata, telogen effluvium, acne vulgaris, and xerosis cutis were statistically significantly increased 2 months after the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic (P < 0.05). An increase in the number of certain diseases such as urticaria and pityriasis rosea may indicate the risk of asymptomatic COVID-19 carriage in these patients. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and/or antibody-based further studies should be performed to explore whether certain dermatologic diseases are related to asymptomatic COVID-19 cases.

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“…Supporting this hypothesis, in a study conducted in Turkey, Kutlu, and Aktaş stated that scabies patients showed a significant increase two months after the first COVID‐19 case. The authors stated that increased intrafamilial contact as a result of the closure of workplaces might have caused this increase 14 …”

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Comparison of patients’ diagnoses in a dermatology outpatient clinic during the COVID‐19 pandemic period and pre‐pandemic period

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Aim In this study, we compared the current diagnoses of patients admitted to the dermatology outpatient clinic with the diagnoses during the non‐pandemic period, and we examined the effect of COVID‐19 on the patient profile. Methods Diagnoses were compared by examining the patient files of the 3‐month period when the pandemic was influential in our country and the 2‐week non‐pandemic period corresponding to the same season a year ago. The outpatient diagnoses in the first month and the last month of the 3‐month pandemic period were also compared. Results During the 3‐month pandemic process, the most common reasons for applying to the outpatient clinic were acne, urticaria, psoriasis, and allergic/irritant contact dermatitis. Urticaria, psoriasis, allergic/irritant contact dermatitis, scabies, liken planus, mycosis fungoides, zona zoster, recurrent aphthous stomatitis and polymorph light eruption were statistically more common in the pandemic period. Moreover, acne, other eczematous dermatities, verruca, androgenic alopecia, and melanocytic nevus diagnoses were found to decrease statistically during the pandemic period when compared with the non‐pandemic period. Conclusion Unlike other studies, the present study evaluated the patient diagnoses during the pandemic period and the period a year before and discussed the possible reasons for the changes in patient profiles.

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The explosion in scabies cases during COVID ‐19 pandemic

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Public interest in dermatologic symptoms, conditions, treatments, and procedures during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from Google Trends

Public interest in dermatologic symptoms, conditions, treatments, and procedures during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from Google Trends

Relative changes in the pattern of diseases presenting in dermatology outpatient clinic in the era of theCOVID‐19 pandemic

Comparison of patients’ diagnoses in a dermatology outpatient clinic during the COVID‐19 pandemic period and pre‐pandemic period

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