title: "Doc, there's a worm in my stool": Munchausen parasitosis in a returning traveler.
abstract: Although delusional parasitosis is frequently diagnosed by travel medicine and infectious disease specialists, factitious illness/Munchausen syndrome is extremely rare.
authors.affiliation: Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.forename: Davidson H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Hamer
mesh_terms: D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D017164:Ascaris lumbricoides; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009835:Oligochaeta; D014195:Travel
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole