INFANTILE ACROPUSTULOSIS - AN UNUSUAL MANIFESTATION OF SCABIES IN INFANTS

Three pediatric cases of vesiculopustules persisting for several months or years after eradication of Sarcoptes scabiei are reported. This particular course of scabies in infants is underrecognized although probably common. Its clinical manifestations, natural history and histologic features are identical to those seen in infantile acropustulosis, a recently individualized syndrome whose pathogenesis is unelucidated. In the light of these cases and a review of the literature, the possible relationship between scabies and infantile acropustulosis is discussed.