A painful, draining black lesion on the right heel

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Van Buskirk, Camille ^a   Burd, Eileen M ^a   Lee, Min ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIABENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXCISION; FEMALE; FLEA; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND FLEA; TANZANIA; TRAVEL; TUNGIASIS;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT DISEASES; HEEL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33745316232     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504870     Document Type: Article

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