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Figure 1.

View larger version (61K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. A hookworm larva was acquired by a 47-year-old man during a vacation at a beach on the Alabama coast of the Gulf of Mexico. An isolated lesion resulted, and it resolved after liquid-nitrogen cryotherapy was administered just beyond the advancing end (single arrow). This photograph was taken a week and a half after the larva was acquired. The double arrows indicate the point where the larva's journey began, with the initial area of inflammation already resolving.

 

Jane McClure Blaum, M.D.
Emily F. Omura, M.D.
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL 35294

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