title: Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed.
abstract: This case illustrates skin lesions in a traveler staying in a hotel bed infested with tics. Although infestation of hotels with bedbugs belonging to the Cimex genus is a growing problem worldwide, tick infestation has never been reported before.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sandlund
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Niaz
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Banaei
keywords: Amblyomma; Ticks; Traveler