Tungiasis - A cause of painful feet in a tropical traveller

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-32

  Hakeem, M J M L ^a   Morris, Allen K ^a   Bhattacharyya, D N ^a   Fox, Christopher ^a  

^a NHS FIFE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chigoe flea; Ectoparasitosis; Tunga penetrans; Tungiasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; EXCISION; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT PAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSECT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND FLEA; SKIN DEFECT; TRAVEL; TROPICS; TUNGIASIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 76949088261     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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