Resumen

TAPIA E, Oscar; KAM C, Sandra; NARANJO L, Mauricio  y  VILLASECA H, Miguel. Tungiasis: Report of one case. Rev. méd. Chile [online]. 2011, vol.139, n.9, pp.1206-1209. ISSN 0034-9887.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872011000900015.

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.

Palabras clave : Pruritus; Siphonaptera; Tungiasis.

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