CASE REPORT
The Presence of the Pubic Louse Pthirus Pubis
in Two Patients Complaining from Tick
Infestation
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İnönü University, Medical Faculty, Malatya, Turkey
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Yüzüncü Yıl University, Medical Faculty, Van, Turkey
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Ordu University, Health Faculty, Ordu, Turkey
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Malatya Government Hospital, Malatya, Turkey
Publication date: 2011-04-11
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Ali Beytur
İnönü Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Üroloji
Anabilim Dalı, 44280, Malatya, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2011;8(2):160-162
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ABSTRACT
Lice of the family pediculidae are obligatory parasites, which are accompanying
the human kind during its entire evolution. We present
the case of two patients, who visited our hospital with multiple bites.
The physical examination of the patients did not reveal any ticks however,
the more in depth inspection of the pubic area, where the pruritus
was intense, revealed the presence of 1-1.5 mm long insects,
which were diagnosed by the parasitologists as belonging to the pubic
louse P. pubis. The patients and their families were treated with 5%
permethrin and were free of lice and symptoms within two weeks.