Tick-Induced Facial Palsy
| Autor: | Mustafa Uğuz, Emis Eken, Nejla Mendil Erdogan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Ixodidae Facial Paralysis Physiology Tick Tick paralysis parasitic diseases medicine Paralysis Animals Humans Ecosystem Palsy Scalp biology Transmission (medicine) General Medicine Middle Aged bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Facial paralysis Tick Paralysis medicine.symptom Hyalomma Ear Canal |
| Zdroj: | Turkiye parazitolojii dergisi. 39(3) |
| ISSN: | 2146-3077 |
| Popis: | Ticks are obligate blood-sucking arthropods that exist worldwide. Their targets include all vertebrates and humans. Ticks are harmful to people with regard to transmission in many viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections. In addition to these diseases and toxin-induced neurological complications, tick-induced paralysis is a syndrome related to neurotoxin production, and its mortality ratio in the literature is reported to be approximately 10%. Tick-induced isolated facial paralysis is a rare form of the disease developing because of attachment to the external auditory canal or attachment behind the ear. Our country and region are under risk in terms of included tick habitat for tick-induced paralysis that is responsible particularly for hard ticks. In our article, we aimed to present a case with isolated facial paralysis that occurred after the internal auditory canal was bitten by Hyalomma margintum species belonging to the hard ticks group and to probe the management of this disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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