Conjunctival attachment of a live paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a child: A case report

Case Reports in Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 120-126

  Teong, Joanne M Y ^a   Adler, Paul A ^a   Doggett, Stephen L ^b   Daneshvar, Dariush ^b   Shields, Melissa K ^a  

^a Parke Street Specialist Centre   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child; Conjunctival attachment; Excision; Ixodes holocyclus; Tick

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; EXCISION; EYE REDNESS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; IXODES; IXODES HOLOCYCLUS; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCULAR PRURITUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TICK INFESTATION; VASODILATATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84929573058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16632699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381743     Document Type: Article

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