Facial palalysis resulting from tick (Ixodes holocyclus) bite
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Massive tick (Ixodes holocyclus) infestation with delayed facial-nerve palsy.
NEUROMUSCULAR PARALYSIS and death up to four days after removal of ticks is well documented and apparently unique to Australian tick envenomation. 1-5 Generally, obvious symptoms and signs are present at the time of tick removal. In contrast, onset of local neurotoxicity many hours after tick removal has not, to my knowledge, been reported previously in the medical literature. A 48-year-old man...
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Vol. 26 No. 1, 2014 127 Received November 22, 2012, Revised February 13, 2013, Accepted for publication March 12, 2013 Corresponding author: Sang Hyun Cho, Department of Dermatology, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, 56 Dongsu-ro, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon 403-720, Korea. Tel: 82-32-280-5102, Fax: 82-32-506-9514, E-mail: [email protected] This is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Entomology and Zoology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0424-7086,2185-5609
DOI: 10.7601/mez.52.161_4