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Cutaneous larva migrans

Última revisão: 20 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 31 Aug 2023

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • recent travel to tropics or subtropics
  • barefoot beachgoer/sunbather
  • creeping, raised, erythematous track
  • intense pruritus
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • vesiculobullous or papular lesions
  • folliculitis
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Fatores de risco

  • recent travel to or residence in an endemic area
  • walking barefoot and/or sunbathing on contaminated beach
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • no test required: diagnosis is clinical
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • skin scrapings/biopsy
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Novos exames

  • epiluminescence microscopy

Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

nonpregnant adults and children

pregnant

CONTÍNUA

no response to initial treatment or relapse

Colaboradores

Autores

David J. Diemert, MD, FRCP(C)
David J. Diemert

Professor

Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Washington

DC

Declarações

DJD declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Eric Caumes, MD

Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

Vice Chairman

Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere

Paris

France

利益声明

EC is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Jorg Heukelbach, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Community Health

School of Medicine

Federal University of Ceara

Ceara

Brazil

利益声明

JH is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD, CTropMed

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Tropical Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston

TX

利益声明

JW declares that she has no competing interests.

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关键文献

Feldmeier H, Schuster A. Mini review: hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 Jun;31(6):915-8. 摘要

Tremblay A, MacLean JD, Gyorkos T, et al. Outbreak of cutaneous larva migrans in a group of travellers. Trop Med Int Health. 2000 May;5(5):330-34.全文  摘要

Davies HD, Sakuls P, Keystone JS. Creeping eruption. A review of clinical presentation and management of 60 cases presenting to a tropical disease unit. Arch Dermatol. 1993 May;129(5):588-91. 摘要

Reichert F, Pilger D, Schuster A, et al. Epidemiology and morbidity of hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans (HrCLM): Results of a cohort study over a period of six months in a resource-poor community in Manaus, Brazil. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Jul 19;12(7):e0006662.全文  摘要

Heukelbach J, Feldmeier H. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008 May;8(5):302-9. 摘要

Blackwell V, Vega-Lopez F. Cutaneous larva migrans: clinical features and management of 44 cases presenting in the returning traveller. Br J Dermatol. 2001 Sep;145(3):434-7. 摘要

Caumes E, Carrière J, Datry A, et al. A randomized trial of ivermectin versus albendazole for the treatment of cutaneous larva migrans. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1993 Nov;49(5):641-4. 摘要

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