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Cutaneous Larva Migrans

Heinz MehlhornInstitut f€ur Zoomorphologie, Zellbiologie undParasitologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität,D€usseldorf, Germany

Cutaneous larva migrans is caused by ▶ hook-worms mainly of dogs and cats. The itching der-matitis often takes the form of tracks or “▶ creeping eruption” indicating the route ofmigration of the larvae in the epidermis of the

skin. These papular and serpiginous lesions some-times become vesicular and hemorrhagic and areoften secondarily infected with bacteria afterscratching. These larvae never mature into adults,to live in the intestine, but will die within 3monthsat the latest (Fig. 1).

Therapy

Local application of a 15 % tiabendazoleointment.

# Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015H. Mehlhorn (ed.), Encyclopedia of Parasitology,DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_765-2

Cutaneous LarvaMigrans, Fig. 1 Humanarm with wandering larvaeof ▶Ancylostoma caninum

2 Cutaneous Larva Migrans