Abstract
A 62-year-old husband and 57-year-old wife presented to our clinic with papular pruritic eruptions on their trunks and extremities. Scabies was suspected, but, no mites or eggs were detected by microscopy from their skin. Their domestic dog was found to have erythematous maculopapular eruptions with crusting and alopecia accompanied by secondary self-traumatic excoriations. Many mites, eggs and feces were found from the crust. The dog was treated by ivermectin. The couple’s symptoms cured by topical corticosteroid and oral anti-allergic drugs. Though we could not find mites or eggs from the couple’s eruptions, we diagnosed them as canine scabies by circumstantial evidences.
