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Laminosioptes cysticola, the fowl cyst mite, was found in peripheral nerves and thoracic and abdominal viscera of an emaciated eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) exhibiting severe torticollis, circling, loss of balance, and wing droop. Mites, sometimes accompanied by granulomatous inflammation, were abundant in brachial plexus and sciatic nerves. Mild lymphoplasmacytic perivascular cuffing was present in the cerebellum, but no direct evidence of mites or other infectious agents was found in the central nervous system. This is the first report of L. cysticola infestation in a wild turkey and of the invasion of nervous tissue by this mite.
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PMID:Clinical illness in a wild turkey with Laminosioptes cysticola infestation of the viscera and peripheral nerves. 920 21

The Ekbom's syndrome, also known as delirium of parasitic infestation, acarophobia, delusional parasitosis, psychogenic parasitosis, is a disease of rare occurrence. Generally it is characterized by the firm conviction of the patients to be infected by worms that come out of the skin, usually from the scalp or even from the mouth, from the eyes or from the genital region. Most of the patients are elderly and female, and with frequent social isolation. Some cases are associated with organic diseases as hyperthyroidism, diabetes, cortical lesion, intoxication by medicines. To our knowledge the association between delusional parasitosis with spasmodic torticollis was not described in literature. We report the case of a 72-year-old-woman with delusional parasitosis associated with spasmodic torticollis.
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PMID:[Ekbom's sydrome and spasmodic torticollis: case report]. 1196 28