[Tungiasis. Report of one case].
We report a 54-year-old male that, after working in a rural zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, presented with an itching cutaneous lesion in the wrist with a black small central zone. The patient extracted from the lesion a on of 0.5 mm diameter. The pathological study of the insect recognized its body segments. The epidemiological background and the characteristics of the lesion led to the diagnosis of tungiasis.
Departamento de Anatomía Patológica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. otescalona@gmail.com
Oscar
O
Tapia E
Sandra
S
Kam C
Mauricio
M
Naranjo L
Miguel
M
Villaseca H
D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002677:Chile; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D005423:Siphonaptera; D014195:Travel; D058285:Tungiasis / Q000469:parasitology*