title: [Two travellers returning from the tropics with persistent wounds on their feet].
abstract: Two young tropical medicine residents returned from Zanzibar with multiple aching wounds on their toes that did not heal within 6 weeks. The clinical picture fit 'tungiasis', which is caused by Tunga penetrans, also known as jigger or sandflea. The ectoparasites were surgically removed and the status of tetanus vaccination was checked.
authors.affiliation: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: van der Naald
authors.forename: Anne J M
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Verbeek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D013636:Tanzania; D014034:Toes / Q000469:parasitology*; D014195:Travel; D058253:Tunga; D058285:Tungiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery