Swimmer's itch: legs
Keywords: Aquatic snails, Cercarial dermatitis, Itchy papular rash, Posterior legs, Schistosome cercariae, Swimmer's itch
Swimmer’s itch is an itchy skin rash caused by an allergic reaction to the larval forms of parasitic flatworms released from aquatic snails into fresh and salt water lakes, ponds, and lagoons.
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