Presents as ill-defined erythema and scale, not the discrete papules from bites, and lacks the visible nits or lice on hair shafts.
Characterized by pustules centered on hair follicles, which can be bacterial or fungal, unlike the pruritic macules and papules of lice bites.
Results from chronic scratching, causing thickened, leathery skin (lichenification), rather than being the primary cause of the itch itself.
A bacterial infection causing bright, beefy-red, well-demarcated erythema, confirmed by culture, unlike the presentation of parasitic infestation.
Caused by a mite that burrows into the skin, creating linear burrows, and typically causes more widespread and intense nocturnal pruritus than pubic lice.
