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 segments. The epidemiological background and the characteristics of the lesion led to the diagnosis of tungiasis.
Saved in:
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | Spanish / Castilian |
Published: |
Sociedad Médica de Santiago
2011
|
Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900015 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
oai:scielo:S0034-98872011000900015 |
---|---|
record_format |
ojs |
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 |
collection |
OJS |
country |
Chile |
countrycode |
CL |
component |
Revista |
access |
En linea |
databasecode |
rev-scielo-cl |
tag |
revista |
region |
America del Sur |
libraryname |
SciELO |
language |
Spanish / Castilian |
format |
Digital |
author |
Tapia E,Oscar Kam C,Sandra Naranjo L,Mauricio Villaseca H,Miguel |
spellingShingle |
Tapia E,Oscar Kam C,Sandra Naranjo L,Mauricio Villaseca H,Miguel Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico |
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 |
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. |
publisher |
Sociedad Médica de Santiago |
publishDate |
2011 |
url |
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900015 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT tapiaeoscar tungiasisunararaectoparasitosiscasoclinico AT kamcsandra tungiasisunararaectoparasitosiscasoclinico AT naranjolmauricio tungiasisunararaectoparasitosiscasoclinico AT villasecahmiguel tungiasisunararaectoparasitosiscasoclinico |
_version_ |
1755988367251603456 |