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REPORT OF CASE CONTRACTED AT WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY

JOSEPH VICTOR KLAUDER, M.D.; SIGMUND S. GREENBAUM, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1921;3(4 PART 1):377-382.

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Creeping eruption, or larva migrans, first described by Lee in 1874, is a relatively rare disease in this country. There are only thirteen references in the literature to the disease occurring in the United States. These cases were reported by Van Harlingen,¹ Stelwagon,² Hamburger,³ Shelmire,⁴ Hutchins,⁵ Moorhead,⁶ Gosman,⁷ Haase,⁸ Kirby-Smith,⁹ Knowles,¹⁰ Gaskill,¹¹ Whitehouse¹² and by Fox.¹³ In many of these reported cases the disease was contracted in the southern part of the United States.

A number of cases of larva migrans have been reported as occurring in various countries, particularly in Russia, in which the disease is most common; it is also common in the Shetland Islands and in Norway. According to Lee, it is common among Arabian children, whose mothers burn the part with a hot wire.

Extensive studies of this disease have been made, notably . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant Professor Dermatology and Syphilology, Graduate School OF Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Instructor Dermatology and Syphilology, Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania; Acting Dermatologist, Mount Sinai Hospital PHILADELPHIA

From the laboratories of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and the Dermatological Research Laboratories of Philadelphia.

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