Human notoedric scabies from contact with cats infested with Notoedres cati.

Forty-eight human contacts with cats infested with Notoedres cati were investigated; 30 (62.5%) of the contacts showed symptoms of notoedric scabies, and N. cati mites were recovered from 15 (50%) skin specimens. Intense pruritus without any mite burrows developed within a few hours of initial contact with the infested cats. People within the age group of 26-35 years were frequently infested. Hands and legs were the most common sites of lesions. Prolonged association with the infested cats was responsible for this cutaneous disease. The lesions in infested people subsided when the cats were segregated from humans.