Five cases of tick bite.
Reported here are five cases of tick bite: in a 2-year-old boy, a 3-year-old girl, a 72-year-old woman, a 29-year-old woman, and a 51-year-old man. Four cases are thought to have occurred in a mountain area while one occurred in a city garden. None were accompanied with severe systemic symptoms or deuteropathies. The parasites were identified as the adult female tick Ixodes ovatus Neumann (3 cases) and Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka et Saito (2 cases), which are commonly distributed in Japan.
Sakai
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Department of Dermatology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan.
Noguchi
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M
Sofuni
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S
Fukushi
G
G
Yamaguchi
T
T
Takada
N
N
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013987:Ticks