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Claudio Guarneri1, Anastasiya Atanasova Chokoeva2,3, Uwe Wollina4
1Department of Clinical Experimental Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Messina (Italy), c/o A.O.U. "G. Martino", via Consolare Valeria, 1, 98125, Messina, Italy.
Abstract:
Trombiculiasis represents a striking emerging infestation in humans. In fact, modified lifestyles and easy and quick traveling around the globe, together with the altered ecology and habits of the parasite Neotrombicula autumnalis, make this original epizoonosis an extraordinary example of synanthropic dermatosis. We present an additional clinical image of this unusual parasite transmission from animals to humans occurring in a trekker in Calabria, Italy.

