Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014

Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014–2015)

Published:2019-10-01 Issue:10 Volume:6 Page:
ISSN:2328-8957
Container-title:Open Forum Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Garcia-Mingo A¹^ORCID,Dawood N²,Watson J¹,Chiodini P L¹

Affiliation:

1. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, United Kingdom

2. Brighton and Sussex University Hospital

Abstract

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.

Funder

Biomedical Research Centre

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Oncology

Link

http://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofz440/30217687/ofz440.pdf

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