id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-324794-h08uzro4 Kutlu, Ömer The explosion in scabies cases during COVID‐19 pandemic 2020-05-23 .txt text/plain 664 48 56 2, 3 Recently, we reported that not number but percentages of patients with scabies, psoriasis, urticaria, and scabiesrelated visits to dermatology outpatient clinic increased immediately ten days after COVID-19 pandemic. In the literature, the increasing number of patients with scabies during COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been reported in European countries. Given Turkey's cultural structure, the lifestyle such as living in the same household with a large number of people, which has become more common due to pandemic-related temporary migration is more frequent than European countries. On the other hand, although the number of patients who requests for outpatient clinics that are not directly related to the pandemic cases decreased in Turkey, most of the hospitals continued to provide healthcare services in all branches of medicine including dermatology. 4 All these factors may be a possible explanation of why Turkey has more scabies cases than European countries. The effect of the "stay-athome" policy on requests for dermatology outpatient clinic visits after the COVID-19 outbreak ./cache/cord-324794-h08uzro4.txt ./txt/cord-324794-h08uzro4.txt