Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Severe Tungiasis in Underprivileged Communities: Case Series from Brazil

Hermann Feldmeier*

, Margit Eisele*, Rômulo César Sabóia-Moura†, and Jörg Heukelbach†

Author affiliations: *Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; †Mandacaru Foundation, Fortaleza, Brazil

Figure 4

Right foot of a 50-year-old man. All nails have been lost. Embedded fleas have been manipulated by the patient, leaving innumerable sores. Desquamation and ulceration are merged. The skin tends to bleed where the stratum corneum is eroded.

Figure 4. Right foot of a 50-year-old man. All nails have been lost. Embedded fleas have been manipulated by the patient, leaving innumerable sores. Desquamation and ulceration are merged. The skin tends to bleed where the stratum corneum is eroded.

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