Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014-2015)

A Garcia-Mingo; N Dawood; J Watson; P L Chiodini

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz440

Samples From Cases of Delusional Parasitosis as Seen in the UK Parasitology Reference Laboratory (2014-2015)

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 14;6(10):ofz440. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz440. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

A Garcia-Mingo¹, N Dawood², J Watson¹, P L Chiodini¹

Affiliations

¹ Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, United Kingdom.
² Brighton and Sussex University Hospital.

Abstract

Delusional parasitosis is a common syndrome seen in Infectious Diseases clinics. These patients characteristically provide samples as evidence of their infestation. We prospectively catalogued and characterized 138 samples from these patients, processed in the UK Clinical Parasitology reference laboratory from January 2014 to April 2015. No human parasites were identified.

Keywords: Ekbom syndrome; delusional infestation; delusional parasitosis.