Tungiasis

✍ Scribed by Marcelo H Grunwald; Avi Shai; Bernardo Mosovich; Ilana Avinoach

• Book ID: 104468972
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-8380
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0960.2000.00388.x

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY

A 24‐year‐old man developed slow‐growing lesions on subungual and plantar areas that appeared a few weeks after returning from a trip to South America. The diagnosis of tungiasis was established by microscopic examination of a lesion. Tungiasis is rarely seen in non‐endemic areas.