Cutaneous larva migrans--a traveller's disease.

N Z Med J

Tairawhiti Area Health Board, Gisborne Hospital.

Published: July 1990

A New Zealander who had travelled to Malaysia presented with cutaneous larva migrans. Treatment with mebendazole was successful.

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