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Scabies

Fact sheet - Health conditions directory.

Scabies is a skin infestation with a mite called Sarcoptes scabiei. These mites burrow into the skin where they live and reproduce. Eggs laid in the burrows hatch, crawl out onto the skin and make new burrows.

Resources for health professionals

Scabies: Management in Residential Care Facilities (PDF, 106kB) – these guidelines describe escalating levels of response to a scabies outbreak in a residential care facility, based on specific features of the outbreak situation.

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List of notifiable conditions
Notifiable Conditions Report Form for Queensland Doctors/Clinicians (section 70 PHA) or person in charge of a Hospital (section 71 PHA) (PDF 294 kB)
Time out poster (PDF 1458 kB) - guidelines for minimum exclusion periods for cases and contacts attending schools, pre-schools and child care centres.
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Queensland notification criteria guidelines for laboratories (PDF 308 kB) - identifies the results pathology laboratories should notify to the Queensland Notifiable Conditions Register
Public Health Act 2005 - including Child Health - contagious conditions
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile (PDF 393 kB)
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile FORM ONLY (PDF 393 kB)

Guidelines for prescribing oseltamivir for seasonal influenza in 2022 (PDF 177 kB)

Last updated: 11 November 2015