A Case of Creeping Eruption / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

Creeping eruption is a syndrome characterized by the penetration in human skin of larvae from hookworms of various animals, mainly cats and dogs. A 26-year-old male presents with pruritic erythematous serpiginous linear skin lesion on the left lower leg for 2 weeks. The skin lesion was developed after walking in bare feet along the beach of an island in Philippines. Histopathologic finding showed a burrow containing numerous eosinophils and a few mononuclear cells in the epidermis. No parasite was found in multiple histologic section.