Tungiasis: una rara ectoparasitosis. Caso clínico

• Oscar Tapia E ^[1] ; Sandra Kam C ^[2] ; Mauricio Naranjo L ^[3] ; Miguel Villaseca H ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Frontera

     Universidad de La Frontera

     Temuco, Chile

     
  2. [2] Consultorio Trovolhue
  3. [3] Clínica Alemana-Temuco

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• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 139, Nº. 9, 2011, págs. 1206-1209
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Tungiasis: Report of one case
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  • 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.