[Child scabies in Nouvelle-Calédonie: its complications in general, and renal in particular (author's transl)].

Child scabies in Nouvelle-Calédonie, is: -- frequent nowadays; -- sometimes difficult to diagnose because of secondary infection or eczematisation; -- most often of favorable evolution with a one-day treatment applied to both children and their close relatives; -- sometimes complicated by surinfection, either of staphylococcic origin with various but osseous foci or streptococcic with severe glomerulonephritis.