Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis

Ticks transmit a variety of infectious diseases. Diagnosis requires verification of a tick's presence. Here, we describe a 61-year-old woman bitten by an eight-legged nymphal Amblyomma testudinarium. We re-emphasize the usefulness of dermoscopy for identifying signs of the bite and determining...

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Autores principales: Matsuda, Masahiro, Oiso, Naoki, Yano, Yasuhiro, Kawada, Akira
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: April 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000328181
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author Matsuda, Masahiro
Oiso, Naoki
Yano, Yasuhiro
Kawada, Akira
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description Ticks transmit a variety of infectious diseases. Diagnosis requires verification of a tick's presence. Here, we describe a 61-year-old woman bitten by an eight-legged nymphal Amblyomma testudinarium. We re-emphasize the usefulness of dermoscopy for identifying signs of the bite and determining the species of the biting tick.
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spelling pubmed-30946822011-05-16 Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis Matsuda, Masahiro Oiso, Naoki Yano, Yasuhiro Kawada, Akira Case Rep Dermatol Published: April 2011 Ticks transmit a variety of infectious diseases. Diagnosis requires verification of a tick's presence. Here, we describe a 61-year-old woman bitten by an eight-legged nymphal Amblyomma testudinarium. We re-emphasize the usefulness of dermoscopy for identifying signs of the bite and determining the species of the biting tick. S. Karger AG 2011-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3094682/ /pubmed/21577370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000328181 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: April 2011
Matsuda, Masahiro
Oiso, Naoki
Yano, Yasuhiro
Kawada, Akira
Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis
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title_full Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis
title_fullStr Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis
title_short Dermoscopy for Tick Bite: Reconfirmation of the Usefulness for the Initial Diagnosis
title_sort dermoscopy for tick bite: reconfirmation of the usefulness for the initial diagnosis
topic Published: April 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000328181
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