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A non-healing nodule in a returned traveller

Philippe R.S. Lagacé-Wiens and Godfrey K.M. Harding

Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.


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  		Fig 1: Deroofed nodule, 1 cm in diameter, on the heel of a man who had travelled to a tungiasis-endemic area.

 

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  		Fig 2: Eggs and feces of the sand flea Tunga penetrans removed from the nodule.