Christiana Williams
Skin is the external barrier of the body which is directly exposed to the environment. This serves as a common entry portal for different pathogens, mostly parasites. Pervasions with parasites can cause fundamental diseases in people, however, these infections frequently bring about cutaneous sores which are on the ascent in dermatology clinical practice due to an increase in travel and immigration. The most common parasitic infections of the skin are caused by ectoparasites. Ectoparasites are the parasites that infect the outer coat or the skin of its host and cause immunopathological responses, cutaneous lesions which further leads to allergic reactions, secondary bacterial or fungal infections and various kinds of dermatitis respectively. One of the most common ectoparasitic infections is scabies.