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A Garcia-Mingo1, N Dawood2, J Watson1
1Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Delusional parasitosis is a common syndrome seen in Infectious Diseases clinics. These patients characteristically provide samples as evidence of their infestation. We prospectively catalogued and characterized 138 samples from these patients, processed in the UK Clinical Parasitology reference laboratory from January 2014 to April 2015. No human parasites were identified.
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