Open Access“Doc, There's a Worm in My Stool”: Munchausen Parasitosis in a Returning Traveler
Author(s) -
Christopher Gill,
Davidson H. Hamer
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.2310/7060.2002.30179
Subject(s) - medicine , travel medicine , munchausen syndrome , factitious disorder , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychiatry , poison control , disease , injury prevention , medical emergency , child abuse
Although delusional parasitosis is frequently diagnosed by travel medicine and infectious disease specialists, factitious illness/Munchausen syndrome is extremely rare.
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