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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 30;189(43):E1341.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170868.

Tick paralysis

Sylvain A Lother  1 , Laura Haley  2
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Case Reports

Tick paralysis

Sylvain A Lother et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) An engorged tick adherent to the mid-back of an 83-year-old man, with 4 cm of surrounding erythema centred around the site of attachment. Stereotactic microscopy views of the (B) dorsal and (C) ventral aspects showing the characteristic appearance of a female Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) (original magnification × 12.5).
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