Abstract
Norwegian scabies developed in a 60-year-old man with lepromatous leprosy on a longterm antileprosy treatment and whose bacterial index had remained zero for the past 4 years. Scabies spread into hospital workers and patients with leprosy in the same ward. However, three were no significant differences between patients with scabies and patients without scabies in the type of leprosy, bacterial index, antileprosy treatment and complications. It was assumed that the widespread infection was partly due to a delay in diagnosis and the depressed immunity both due to external and internal corticosteroid therapy of the patient with Norwegian scabies.
