Rodríguez AM, Gutiérrez BR, Acosta ML, Ramos GA

Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 31-35
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ABSTRACT

Larva migrans is a characteristic affliction of tropical and subtropical regions with a hot humid climate. As the name suggests, the prime feature is that the lesions migrate and that are due to the presence of moving parasites in the skin, this let us make the diagnostic just by watching the lesions.

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