Tungiasis, a rare case of plantar inflammatory disease, a review of travelers skin lesions for emergency providers.

Parasitic infections while common in underdeveloped nations are rarely seen in developed urban centers. We report a case of a thirty-three-year-old male with no past medical history who presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of "eggs coming out of my foot" after returning home from Brazil. Based on clinical presentation, travel history, and appearance of the lesion, diagnosis was most consistent with tungiasis infection which was confirmed by the pathology examination. It is important to make the appropriate diagnosis when skin lesions are found in returning travelers and emergency providers should take broad differential diagnosis into consideration.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  American Journal of Emergency Medicine

• Publication date

  2019-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ajem.2019.03.030PMID 30922527
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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