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A Mukherjee1, N H Ahmed, J C Samantaray
1Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
|August 14, 2012
Abstract:
A 28-year-old lady presented with recurrent erythematous skin lesions in different parts of the body for 3 months. There were several episodes of worm coming out of the lesions. Examination of the worms in the parasitology laboratory revealed it to be a larva of Gnathostoma sp. She was advised treatment with Albendazole for 21 days, and there was no recurrence of lesions.
