Dermal swellings and ocular injury after exposure to reindeer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 2456-2457

  Kan, Boris ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^b   Fossen, Kristian ^c   Åsbakk, Kjetil ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; EGG; EMBRYO; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HUMAN; HYPODERMA; HYPODERMA TARANDI; LARVA; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MYIASIS; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; OPHTHALMOMYIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINDEER; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN SWELLING; SWEDEN; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84871315490     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1201434     Document Type: Letter

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