Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico

We report a 54-year-old male that, after working in a rural zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presented with an itching cutaneous lesion in the wrist with a black small central zone. The patient extracted from the lesion a on of 0.5 mm diameter. The pathological study of the insect recognized its body...

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Autores principales: Tapia E,Oscar, Kam C,Sandra, Naranjo L,Mauricio, Villaseca H,Miguel
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2011
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720110009000152011-11-17Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínicoTapia E,OscarKam C,SandraNaranjo L,MauricioVillaseca H,Miguel Pruritus Siphonaptera Tungiasis We report a 54-year-old male that, after working in a rural zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presented with an itching cutaneous lesion in the wrist with a black small central zone. The patient extracted from the lesion a on of 0.5 mm diameter. The pathological study of the insect recognized its body segments. The epidemiological background and the characteristics of the lesion led to the diagnosis of tungiasis.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.139 n.9 20112011-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900015es10.4067/S0034-98872011000900015
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Pruritus
Siphonaptera
Tungiasis
spellingShingle Pruritus
Siphonaptera
Tungiasis
Tapia E,Oscar
Kam C,Sandra
Naranjo L,Mauricio
Villaseca H,Miguel
Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
description We report a 54-year-old male that, after working in a rural zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presented with an itching cutaneous lesion in the wrist with a black small central zone. The patient extracted from the lesion a on of 0.5 mm diameter. The pathological study of the insect recognized its body segments. The epidemiological background and the characteristics of the lesion led to the diagnosis of tungiasis.
author Tapia E,Oscar
Kam C,Sandra
Naranjo L,Mauricio
Villaseca H,Miguel
author_facet Tapia E,Oscar
Kam C,Sandra
Naranjo L,Mauricio
Villaseca H,Miguel
author_sort Tapia E,Oscar
title Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
title_short Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
title_full Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
title_fullStr Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
title_full_unstemmed Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico
title_sort tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. caso clínico
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2011
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900015
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