A case of tick bite by a spontaneously retreated Ixodes nipponensis |
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Authors: | BK Cho HW Nam SY Cho WK Lee |
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Affiliation: | Department of Dermatology, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea. |
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Abstract: | A 58-year old housewife consulted us about 1 cm sized, dark-brownish, bean-like mass which was dropped spontaneously from indurated skin lesion on her abdomen. The mass was identified morphologically as an engorged female Ixodes nipponensis. Nine days earlier, she had an excursion collecting edible sprouts of wild grass. Spontaneous retreat has been unusual in clinical tick bites in Korea. Fourteen cases of tick bite described in the Korean literature were reviewed briefly in relation to Lyme borreliosis. |
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