title: [Unclear pruritic and urticarial skin inflammation. Bed bug attack].
abstract: A 27-year-old woman presented with severe pruritus for a few weeks and diffuse urticarial erythema with pinhead-sized papules over the entire body. The skin lesions occurred directly after a stay in her secondary residence in London. The medical history, clinical picture and histological feature of an arthropod reaction in the skin biopsy, coupled with patient offering a bed bug specimen as evidence, secured the diagnosis of a cimicosis.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Dermatologie, Allergologie und Venerologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Ricklinger Str. 5, 30449 Hannover. Arayesh.Anthony@mh-hannover.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arayesh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wieczorek
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kapp
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Raap
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001511:Bedbugs; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*; D011537:Pruritus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*; D014581:Urticaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*