Uğuz Mustafa, Erdoğan Nejla Mendil, Eken Emiş
Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Silifke State Hospital, Mersin, Turkey.
Turkiye Parazitol Derg. 2015 Sep;39(3):248-51. doi: 10.5152/tpd.2015.3683.
Ticks are obligate blood-sucking arthropods that exist worldwide. Their targets include all vertebrates and humans. Ticks are harmful to people with regard to transmission in many viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections. In addition to these diseases and toxin-induced neurological complications, tick-induced paralysis is a syndrome related to neurotoxin production, and its mortality ratio in the literature is reported to be approximately 10%. Tick-induced isolated facial paralysis is a rare form of the disease developing because of attachment to the external auditory canal or attachment behind the ear. Our country and region are under risk in terms of included tick habitat for tick-induced paralysis that is responsible particularly for hard ticks. In our article, we aimed to present a case with isolated facial paralysis that occurred after the internal auditory canal was bitten by Hyalomma margintum species belonging to the hard ticks group and to probe the management of this disease.
蜱是专性吸血节肢动物，遍布全球。它们的目标包括所有脊椎动物和人类。蜱在许多病毒、细菌和寄生虫感染的传播方面对人类有害。除了这些疾病和毒素引起的神经并发症外，蜱致麻痹是一种与神经毒素产生相关的综合征，文献报道其死亡率约为10%。蜱致孤立性面神经麻痹是该病的一种罕见形式，由于蜱附着于外耳道或耳后而发病。我国及本地区存在蜱致麻痹的风险，尤其是硬蜱。在我们的文章中，我们旨在介绍一例由硬蜱组的边缘璃眼蜱叮咬内耳后发生孤立性面神经麻痹的病例，并探讨该病的治疗方法。
