Abstract
Introduction/Objective: Scabies is a common and substantial source of morbidity in LTC. It is often introduced by newly admitted residents, especially those transferred from other LTC facilities. Scabies typically presents as a highly contagious, pruritic, burrowing skin rash caused by sarcoptes scabiei mites. However, it could have inconspicuous, atypical features in elderly institutionalized patients and can be manifested as a widespread, nonspecific erythematous, papulosqamous rash resembling an allergic or drug rx. Crusted or Norwegian scabies, described in Norway in 1848, is a particularly contagious, florid variant characterized by tens of thousands of mites.
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