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Acute superficial lymphangitis following pigeon mite bite
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A medical resident woke up in the night with an intense itch of the left wrist and recovered a tick nearby. The bite mark over 2 days progressed as a long linear erythematous, swollen and tender streak extending up to the axilla along the medial aspect of the upper limb (figures 1 and 2) along with a tender axillary lymphadenopathy. …
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