Annual occurrences of caterpillar dermatitis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Topical treatment of contact dermatitis by pine processionary caterpillar.
Skin contact dermatitis by pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) is a public health problem of increasing significance. The authors present here the case of a 65-year-old man who was diagnosed with processionary caterpillar dermatitis. Patient was treated with topical potassium dobesilate 5% cream twice a day for 2 days. An improvement occurred soon after treatment.
متن کاملOutbreak report of airborne caterpillar dermatitis in a kindergarten.
BACKGROUND The oak processionary caterpillar is found in several European countries. The larva of Thaumetopoea processionea Lepidoptera from the third to sixth larval instar develops poisonous hair (setae), filled with an urticating toxin that could lead to serious dermatitis, conjunctivitis and pulmonary problems (summarized as lepidopterism) on contact. OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence...
متن کاملCaterpillar compaction
Caterpillar compaction NA compaction, say Ryan Case, YunPei Chang, Nicholas Cozzarelli, Carlos Bustamante, and colleagues (University of California, Berkeley, CA), may work via a cooperative caterpillar-like mechanism. The caterpillar is formed by multiple copies of condensin protein—in this case MukBEF—with each V-shaped condensin contributing two legs. Compaction occurs when the caterpillar’s...
متن کاملThe Caterpillar Factorization of Crowns
In this paper we obtain the necessary and sufficient condition for balanced-caterpillar factorization of crowns and that for directed caterpillar factorization of symmetric crowns.
متن کاملForecasting occurrences of activities
While activity recognition has been shown to be valuable for pervasive computing applications, less work has focused on techniques for forecasting the future occurrence of activities. We present an activity forecasting method to predict the time that will elapse until a target activity occurs. This method generates an activity forecast using a regression tree classifier and offers an advantage ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Entomology and Zoology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0424-7086,2185-5609
DOI: 10.7601/mez.48.159_3