Tick Paralysis

DeSanctis, Adolph G.

doi:10.1001/jama.1943.72840190001006

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“…23,24 Tick paralysis is easily confused with a variety of other conditions (Table 3). 25 Ours is not the first instance in which careful examination with a finetoothed comb led to the correct diagnosis; in other cases, patients were initially thought to have cerebellar ataxia, 26 poliomyelitis, 27,28 or "idiopathic paralysis." 6 In each of these cases, the engorged tick was detected in scalp hair by a nurse using a comb, after extensive clinical evaluation by one or more physicians and hours to days of observation and laboratory testing.…”

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