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Pyemotes Ventricosus Dermatitis, Southeastern France

Overview
Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2008 Nov 4
PMID 18976564
Citations 6
Authors
Pascal Del Giudice
Veronique Blanc-Amrane
Philippe Bahadoran
Eric Caumes
Pierre Marty
Marilena Lazar
Christian Boissy
Francois Desruelles
Arezki Izri
Jean-Paul Ortonne
Evelyne Counillon
Olivier Chosidow
Pascal Delaunay
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Abstract

We investigated 42 patients who had unusual pruritic dermatitis associated with a specific clinical sign (comet sign) in 23 houses in southeastern France from May through September 2007. Pyemotes ventricosus, a parasite of the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, was the cause of this condition.

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