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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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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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