Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed
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.
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| author | Johanna Sandlund Niaz Banaei |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-febb66cbd5824299ac8d4bce7a066c352022-12-21T20:14:39ZengElsevierIDCases2214-25092014-01-0112242510.1016/j.idcr.2014.03.002Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bedJohanna Sandlund0Niaz Banaei1Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USADepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USAThis 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250914000080AmblyommaTicksTraveler |
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| title | Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed |
| title_full | Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed |
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| title_short | Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed |
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| topic | Amblyomma Ticks Traveler |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250914000080 |
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