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. 2021 Mar 11;10:28. doi: 10.12703/r/10-28

Table 1. Summary of 2020 International Alliance for the Control of Scabies criteria for the diagnosis of scabies21.

A: Confirmed Scabies
A1: Mites, eggs, or faeces on light microscopy of skin samples
A2: Mites, eggs, or faeces on individual using a high-powered imaging device
A3: Mite visualised on individual using dermoscopy
B: Clinical Scabies
B1: Scabies burrows
B2: Typical lesions affecting male genitalia
B3: Typical lesions in a typical distribution and two history features
C: Suspected Scabies
C1: Typical lesions in a typical distribution and one history feature
C2: Atypical lesions or atypical distribution and two history features
H: History Features
H1: Pruritus
H2: Close contact with an individual who has had itch or typical lesions in a typical distribution

The table was reproduced from Engelman D et al. which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).