Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015)

Delusional parasitosis is a common syndrome seen in Infectious Diseases clinics. These patients characteristically provide samples as evidence of their infestation. We prospectively catalogued and characterized 138 samples from these patients, processed in the UK Clinical Parasitology reference labo...

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Autores principales: Garcia-Mingo, A, Dawood, N, Watson, J, Chiodini, P L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz440
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Dawood, N
Watson, J
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description Delusional parasitosis is a common syndrome seen in Infectious Diseases clinics. These patients characteristically provide samples as evidence of their infestation. We prospectively catalogued and characterized 138 samples from these patients, processed in the UK Clinical Parasitology reference laboratory from January 2014 to April 2015. No human parasites were identified.
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spelling pubmed-68103092019-10-28 Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015) Garcia-Mingo, A Dawood, N Watson, J Chiodini, P L Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Delusional parasitosis is a common syndrome seen in Infectious Diseases clinics. These patients characteristically provide samples as evidence of their infestation. We prospectively catalogued and characterized 138 samples from these patients, processed in the UK Clinical Parasitology reference laboratory from January 2014 to April 2015. No human parasites were identified. Oxford University Press 2019-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6810309/ /pubmed/31660383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz440 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015)
title_full Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015)
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title_short Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015)
title_sort samples from cases of delusional parasitosis as seen in the uk parasitology reference laboratory (2014–2015)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810309/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz440
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