Case Report Crusted Demodicosis in an Immunocompetent Pediatric Patient

Copyright © 2014 Guillermo Antonio Guerrero-González et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Demodicosis refers to the infestation by Demodex spp., a saprophytic mite of the pilosebaceous unit. Demodex proliferation can result in a number of cutaneous disorders including pustular folliculitis, pityriasis folliculorum, papulopustular, and granulomatous rosacea, among others. We report the case of a 7-year-old female presenting with pruritic grayish crusted lesions over her nose and cheeks, along with facial erythema, papules, and pustules.The father referred chronic use of topical steroids. A potassium hydroxide mount of a pustule scraping revealed severalD. folliculorummites. Oral ivermectin (20