Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report

We describe a rare clinical finding of conjunctival tick attachment in a child. A 10-year-old boy presented to the clinic with right-eye itch. He was found to have a live tick firmly attached to his right temporal conjunctiva. The tick was identified as the larval stage of the paralysis tick, Ixodes...

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Autores principales: Teong, Joanne M.Y., Adler, Paul A., Doggett, Stephen L., Daneshvar, Dariush, Shields, Melissa K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: April, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25969685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381743
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author Teong, Joanne M.Y.
Adler, Paul A.
Doggett, Stephen L.
Daneshvar, Dariush
Shields, Melissa K.
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description We describe a rare clinical finding of conjunctival tick attachment in a child. A 10-year-old boy presented to the clinic with right-eye itch. He was found to have a live tick firmly attached to his right temporal conjunctiva. The tick was identified as the larval stage of the paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus. The tick was removed completely by conjunctival excision. Although various methods of removing a tick have been described in the literature, the goal of treatment is the safe and complete removal of the tick to prevent further transmission of pathogens, allergens, and toxins to the patient.
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spelling pubmed-44271392015-05-12 Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report Teong, Joanne M.Y. Adler, Paul A. Doggett, Stephen L. Daneshvar, Dariush Shields, Melissa K. Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: April, 2015 We describe a rare clinical finding of conjunctival tick attachment in a child. A 10-year-old boy presented to the clinic with right-eye itch. He was found to have a live tick firmly attached to his right temporal conjunctiva. The tick was identified as the larval stage of the paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus. The tick was removed completely by conjunctival excision. Although various methods of removing a tick have been described in the literature, the goal of treatment is the safe and complete removal of the tick to prevent further transmission of pathogens, allergens, and toxins to the patient. S. Karger AG 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4427139/ /pubmed/25969685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381743 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. 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 online: April, 2015
Teong, Joanne M.Y.
Adler, Paul A.
Doggett, Stephen L.
Daneshvar, Dariush
Shields, Melissa K.
Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title_full Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title_fullStr Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title_short Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report
title_sort conjunctival attachment of a live paralysis tick, ixodes holocyclus, in a child: a case report
topic Published online: April, 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25969685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381743
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