• Maryanna C Ter Poorten and Neil S Prose.
• Department of Dermatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
• Pediatr Dermatol. 2005 May 1;22(3):183-7.

AbstractThe incidence of skin disease secondary to infestation with the human bedbug, Cimex lectularius, has increased dramatically in the United States and in the United Kingdom. We describe a child with a recurrent pruritic eruption of urticarial, erythematous papules on the face, neck, and extremities. The etiology of her cutaneous lesions was discovered to be a bedbug infestation in the home. The epidemiology, entomology, presentation, and treatment of bedbugs and their bites are discussed.

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