Korean J Dermatol.
2006 Apr;44(4):505-507.
A Case of Blackfly Bites
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. hjpark@catholic.ac.kr
- 2Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 3Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.
Abstract
- A 22-year-old man visited our clinic with a 1 month history of pruritic, multiple and erythematous papules with crust. At first, he was asymptomatic, but the bites subsequently became hard and developed into pruritic papules. There are many small black flying insects in the Gangwon province where he worked. He found that some of the insects had attached to the skin lesions, and so were brought to us. They were identified as blackflies, of the Simulium sp. Since there have been no reports of blackfly bite in Korea, we herein report a case of blackfly bites by Simulium sp.
