Published Online: May 17, 2007 - 11:48:20 PM (CDT)
Prepared by John L. Johnson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
A healthy 24-year-old male physician had worked in a local clinic in Senegal and Cote d?Ivoire for 2 weeks. During his stay, he visited a beach, where he went swimming and played volleyball. Six days later he noticed several raised, red, extremely pruritic lesions on his right foot (Figure).