マダニの皮膚寄生

PARASITIC ERUPTION OF IXODES PERSULCATUS SCHULZE

　マダニが人体に寄生することは比較的まれなようで，本邦での報告例はいたつて少ない。我々は最近，4歳の男児にマダニの皮膚寄生した症例を経験したので以下に報告する．

A rice-sized, grayish-white papule on the helix of the right earlobe in a 4-year-old boy had been found one week before. It was followed by the red, tender swelling of the skin around it.

At his first visit, a daizu-sized parasite was found, and the lesion was excised with the surrounding skin. The parasite was identified as an adult, female tick which belongs to Ixodes persulcatus schulze

The boy used to play in the copse in the suburb of Sendai City, where he seemed to have been attacked.