ORCID

0009-0009-4322-3697 (Schaffer)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.1016/j.acepjo.2024.100032

Publication Title

JACEP Open

Volume

6

Issue

1

Pages

100032 (1-2)

Abstract

[First paragraph] A 61-year old man with no significant past medical history presented with painful bug bites on his lower back 1 day after a 1.5-week-long visit to Africa. He noticed bug bites on his lower back 3 days ago; since then, they have increased in size and become more painful. He was prescribed doxycycline at urgent care earlier that morning and had taken 1 dose. He is taking prophylactic medications for malaria and has had no fever at home. Vital signs, exquisitely tender papular lesions with a central punctum and surrounding erythema in the bilateral paralumbar regions.

Rights

© 2025 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Chaffer, K., Adamski, N., Ambrose, B., & Anderson, K. (2025). Man with an itchy back. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 6(1), 1-2, Article 100032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acepjo.2024.100032

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