[Treatment of drug resistant scabies].

Thirty patients suffering from scabies who had previonsly received other kinds of treatment were administered "Metrifonate" at daily doses of 10 mg./kg. b.w. during two consecutive days repeated every week and associated with atropine sulfate. The number of weeks lapse until the treatment finished was as follows. (see article.) Four patients developed intolerance, but it was transitory (nausea and vomiting). Cures (skin lesions and prutitus) were obtaind in 29 our of 30 cases.