ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2015
Long Term Control of Scabies Fifteen Years after an Intensive Treatment Programme.
Article in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mass Drug Administration for the Control of Scabies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review and an individual patient data meta-analysis of ivermectin use in children weighing less than fifteen kilograms: Is it time to reconsider the current contraindication?PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Treatment, prevention and public health management of impetigo, scabies, crusted scabies and fungal skin infections in endemic populations: a systematic review.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2019Pooled it
- Randomized Trial of Community Treatment With Azithromycin and Ivermectin Mass Drug Administration for Control of Scabies and Impetigo.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Trial
- Integration of population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases: A scoping review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Ivermectin-Based Mass Drug Administration for Scabies in Northern India: A Single-Arm Community Intervention Trial.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Living in a large family and low daily water consumption substantially expose for human scabies in rural Ethiopia: a matched analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Article
- Article
- Modelling mass drug administration strategies for reducing scabies burden in Monrovia, Liberia.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Can ivermectin mass drug administrations to control scabies also reduce skin and soft tissue infections? Hospitalizations and primary care presentations lower after a large-scale trial in Fiji.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2022Article
- Mass drug administration for endemic scabies: a systematic review.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2021Review
- Scabies and impetigo in Samoa: A school-based clinical and molecular epidemiological study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2021Article
- Paediatrics: how to manage scabies.Drugs in context · 2021Review
- Article
- The Management of Scabies in the 21st Century: Past, Advances and Potentials.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2020Review
- Prevalence of Scabies and Impetigo 3 Years After Mass Drug Administration With Ivermectin and Azithromycin.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- High burden and seasonal variation of paediatric scabies and pyoderma prevalence in The Gambia: A cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Control Strategies for Scabies.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2018Review
- Impact of ivermectin administered for scabies treatment on the prevalence of head lice in Atoifi, Solomon Islands.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Efficacy of ivermectin mass-drug administration to control scabies in asylum seekers in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort study between January 2014 - March 2016.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
introductionScabies is a major public health problem in the Pacific and is associated with an increased risk of bacterial skin infections, glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever. Mass drug administration with ivermectin is a promising strategy for the control of scabies. Mass treatment with ivermectin followed by active case finding was conducted in five communities in the Solomon Islands between 1997 and 2000 and resulted in a significant reduction in the prevalence of both scabies and bacterial skin infections.
methodsWe conducted a prospective follow-up study of the communities where the original scabies control programme had been undertaken. All residents underwent a standardised examination for the detection of scabies and impetigo.
resultsThree hundred and thirty eight residents were examined, representing 69% of the total population of the five communities. Only 1 case of scabies was found, in an adult who had recently returned from the mainland. The prevalence of active impetigo was 8.8% overall and 12.4% in children aged 12 years or less. DISCUSSION: We found an extremely low prevalence of scabies 15 years after the cessation of a scabies control programme. The prevalence of impetigo had also declined further since the end of the control programme. Our results suggest that a combination of mass treatment with ivermectin and intensive active case finding may result in long term control of scabies. Larger scale studies and integration with other neglected tropical disease control programmes should be priorities for scabies control efforts.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.