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How Do I Get Tested For Scabies?

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Updated August 07, 2007

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Question: How Do I Get Tested For Scabies?
Answer:

Scabies is normally diagnosed by the appearance of the skin rash it causes. Doctors can also take a scraping of the rash to test it for the presence of the scabies mites, their eggs, or their feces, but this test has a high occurrence of false negatives. You may still have scabies even if the skin scraping comes back negative.

A picture and description of a scabies rash can be found here.

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