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Tick bite - a case study
Mark McGrath1, Garry Buchan-Hepburn
1University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland. mark.mcgrath@uq.edu.au
Australian Family Physician
|March 8, 2012
Abstract:
A woman, 84 years of age, presented to our southeastern Queensland general practice for removal of an engorged tick from her right external auditory meatus, thought to have been present for several days. She re-presented 3 days later with a right facial nerve palsy that affected her frontalis muscle only (Figure 1). The facial nerve palsy resolved spontaneously over the next 7 days (Figure 2).
