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The patient, 41-year-old physician, had previously been healthy. He recalled no tick bites in his life. After jogging on August 17, 1992, he was bitten by a deer fly. Erythema migrans like lesion developed around the bite area in right lower leg slowly in two weeks. No fever or other symptoms developed. Examination on September 2 disclosed 5 x 12 cm homogenous erythema. (Fig.1.) No itching or other hypersensitivity symptoms were present in addition to the erythema.
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Oksi, J., Helander, I., Aho, H., Marjamäki, M., Viljanen, M.K. (1994). Borrelia Burgdorferi Shown By PCR from Skin Biopsy Specimen after a Fly Bite. In: Axford, J.S., Rees, D.H.E. (eds) Lyme Borreliosis. NATO ASI Series, vol 260. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2415-1_8
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