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Volume 27, Number 6—June 2021
Dispatch

Reemergence of Scabies Driven by Adolescents and Young Adults, Germany, 2009–2018

Felix ReichertComments to Author , Maike Schulz, Elke Mertens, Raskit Lachmann, and Anton Aebischer
Author affiliations: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (F. Reichert); Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany (F. Reichert, R. Lachmann, A. Aebischer); Central Research Institute of Ambulatory Health Care in Germany, Berlin, Germany (M. Schulz); Public Health Agency of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany (E. Mertens)

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Table

Number of outpatients with repeated scabies treatment prescriptions after >28 d, by age group, Germany, 2009 and 2018

Age group, y No. patients with scabicide prescription
 No. patients with repeated scabicide prescription
 Percentage of patients with repeated prescriptions
2009
 2018 2009
 2018 2009 2018
<5 3,844 29,255 248 6,999 6 24
5–9 4,687 33,002 264 7,988 6 24
10–14 3,781 37,693 230 10,298 6 27
15–19 4,900 71,610 314 21,100 6 29
20–24 4,350 57,271 225 14,351 5 25
25–29 3,017 33,830 131 7,072 4 21
30–34 2,235 24,466 106 4,630 5 19
35–39 2,215 23,871 92 4,565 4 19
40–44 3,091 23,327 131 4,689 4 20
45–49 3,062 25,006 133 5,108 4 20
50–54 2,354 24,197 125 4,405 5 18
55–59 1,821 17,485 123 2,941 7 17
60–64 1,274 11,534 87 1,917 7 17
65–69 1,376 8,043 110 1,376 8 17
70–74 1,509 5,778 109 906 7 16
75–79 1,230 6,920 102 1,105 8 16
≥80
 3,321
 15,998
230
 2,228
7
 14
Total 48,067 449,286
 2,760 101,678
 6 23

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