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Gionata Marazza, MD; Alexandre Campanelli, MD; Gúrkan Kaya, MD, PhD; Ralph P. Braun, MD; Jean-Hilaire Saurat, MD; Vincent Piguet, MD, PhD

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We agree with Bauer et al¹ and Di Stefani et al² regarding the dermoscopic features of Tunga penetrans described in earlier issues of the Archives, and we would like to describe here an additional dermoscopic finding for this disease. Tungiasis is an ectoparasitic skin disease caused by the female sand flea T penetrans. It is endemic to South and Central America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, where it represents a public health problem. The transmission of the flea occurs by walking barefoot in sands contaminated by feces of pigs and cows. The diagnosis is clinical, but dermoscopy is helpful and shows many characteristic features.^1-2

We report here the case of a 70-year-old woman from Peru without notable medical history who developed a pruritic papule on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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