Stowaways with wings: Two case reports on high-flying insects

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 128-133

  Wolf, Ronni ^a   Orion, Edith ^a   Matz, Hagit ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOBIA; FEMALE; FLEA; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYIASIS; PAPULE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRURITUS; SAND FLEA; SKIN NODULE; TUNGIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 3042728132     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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