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Man With An Itchy Back, Katherine Schaffer, Nevin Adamski, Brittany Ambrose, Kathleen Anderson
Man With An Itchy Back, Katherine Schaffer, Nevin Adamski, Brittany Ambrose, Kathleen Anderson
Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Publications
[First paragraph] A 61-year old man with no significant past medical history presented with painful bug bites on his lower back 1 day after a 1.5-week-long visit to Africa. He noticed bug bites on his lower back 3 days ago; since then, they have increased in size and become more painful. He was prescribed doxycycline at urgent care earlier that morning and had taken 1 dose. He is taking prophylactic medications for malaria and has had no fever at home. Vital signs, exquisitely tender papular lesions with a central punctum and surrounding erythema in the bilateral paralumbar regions.