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Imported skin parasitosis: creeping eruption

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Avenida de los Reyes Católicos 2, 28015, Madrid, Spain

    Marta Lobo-Antuña & Fernando Cerro-Zarabozo

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Consorci Hospital General Universitari de Valencia, Internal Medicine, Avenida Tres Cruces 2, 46007, Valencia, Spain

    Victoria Lobo-Antuña

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Lobo-Antuña, M., Lobo-Antuña, V. & Cerro-Zarabozo, F. Imported skin parasitosis: creeping eruption. Intern Emerg Med 18, 929–930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-022-03150-2

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