title: The diagnostic usefulness of dermoscopy for identifying six-legged larval ticks.
abstract: Ticks are vectors of a variety of diseases such as Lyme disease and Japanese spotted fever. We examined an 87-year-old female with multiple tick bites by at least 236 larval Amblyomma testudinarium infestations. Numerous tick bites are generally caused by the six-legged larvae, which were verified in this case by dermoscopy. The present case indicates the diagnostic usefulness of dermoscopy for six-legged larval tick bites.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Dermatology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka 589-8511, Japan. naoiso@med.kindai.ac.jp
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oiso
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kawada
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000175:diagnosis*; D046169:Dermoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva; D013987:Ticks