Tungiasis in the United States: A travel souvenir

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Hager, Jon ^a   Jacobs, Aleda ^a   Orengo, Ida F ^a   Rosen, Ted ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN INFECTION; TRAVEL; TUNGIASIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; FLEA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PEACE CORPS; TANZANIA; TOE;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; HUMANS; PEACE CORPS; TANZANIA; TOES; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149263263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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