Tick Bites.
- Author:
Koo Seog CHAE
1
;
Hoon GANG
;
Dong Won LEE
;
Dae Gyoo BYUN
;
Baik Kee CHO
;
Chun Wook PARK
;
Jung Kwon SUH
;
Kun Bock LEE
;
Hong Jig KIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Tick bite; Tick bite pyrexia; Ixodes nipponesis
- MeSH: Chills; Diagnosis; Fever; Humans; Ixodes; Ixodidae; Korea; Skin Diseases; Tick Bites*; Ticks*
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology 2000;38(1):111-116
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Tick bites are dermatoses not commonly encountered in Korea. Identification of causative ticks as well as recognition of clinical signs and histopathologic findings are important in making a diagnosis in tick-related dermatoses. Hard ticks which belong to the Family Ixodidae are responsible for most tick-related diseases. Since the first human case of tick bite in Korea was reported in 1982, seventeen cases have been reported up to the present. All the inflicted ticks belonged to the genus Ixodes except a case by Haemaphysalis flava. Among 16 ticks, collected from 16 cases of tick bites caused by the genus Ixodes, nine I. nipponenses, an I. ovatus and I. persulcatus were identified. Recently we experienced 8 cases of tick bites, 6 of them were caused by the genus Ixodes including 4 I. nipponenses. One of them, whose essential complaint was fever and chills, showed the clinical course of tick bite pyrexia which had not been reported in Korea. The clinical and epidemiological findings of tick bites reported in Korea were reviewed, including these 8 cases.
