Tick Bite
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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 an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fig. 1. (A) Pruritic and stinging, solitary, brownish nodule on the left back. (B) Photographs showing Ixodesis nipponensis (right: ventral surface; left: dorsal surface; scale: 1 mm; a: spicular plate; b: genital aperture; c: anus and anal groove; d: coxa IV). http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2014.26.1.127
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