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Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Eric B. Tomich*
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, 10th Combat Support Hospital, Tallil, Iraq (origin of case), and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash. (hospital affiliation)
Tristan Knutson
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, 10th Combat Support Hospital, Tallil, Iraq (origin of case), and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash. (hospital affiliation)
Lindsay Welsh
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, 10th Combat Support Hospital, Tallil, Iraq (origin of case), and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash. (hospital affiliation)
*
3851 Roger Brooke Dr., Department of Emergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio TX 78234; [email protected]

Abstract

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Type
Knowledge to Practice • Des connaissances à la pratique
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2010

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