Comment on 'Oral ivermectin to treat scabies: a comparison of two different regimens'

Current guidelines recommended the use of oral ivermectin (taken with food) 200 mu g kg(-1) as two doses 1-week apart as the first-line treatment option; however, the drug package of the ivermectin formulation recently approved for the Italian market recommends a single dose. In this context, we read with great interest the article recently published by Balestri et al. comparing two regimens of oral ivermectin. Similarly, we performed a retrospective analysis at our Dermatological Clinic of Mycology and Parasitosis and report our results.

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Current guidelines recommend oral ivermectin as the first-line treatment, with a dose of 200 μg/kg taken in two doses 1-week apart (to be taken with food). However, the recently approved ivermectin formulation in Italy suggests a single dose. In response to this, we conducted a retrospective analysis at our Dermatological Clinic of Mycology and Parasitosis and present our findings, following a similar study conducted by Balestri et al.