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SUBMITTER: Le Joncour A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3335691 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Le Joncour Alexandre A Lacour Sandrine A SA Lecso Gabriel G Regnier Stéphanie S Guillot Jacques J Caumes Eric E
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20120501 5
We report a case of hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans diagnosed microscopically. Viable hookworm larvae were found by microscopic examination of a skin scraping from follicular lesions. Amplification and sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer 2 allowed the specific identification of the larvae as Ancylostoma braziliense. ...[more]