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I have lyme, fibromyalgia, mycoplasma penetrans, graves disease and other conditions.
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In 1863 the jigger (P. penetrans) was not found in
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Pratylenchus penetrans as a cause of necrosis in Arracacia xantizorrhiza in Brazil.
Chapter 8 1987
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CHIGO OR JIGGER-FLEA, MALE (_Dermatophilus penetrans_) 54
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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There flourishes in Southern latitudes a minute creature called _Dermatophilus penetrans_, or the jigger, which can inflict great pain on barefooted people by housing itself under their toe-nails.
Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904
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(_Synonyms: _ Sand Flea; Jigger.) #Describe the cutaneous disturbance produced by the pulex penetrans.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The chigoe (_Pulex penetrans_) of the Gulf coast is still more injurious, because it burrows under the surface and deposits its eggs to be hatched out slowly with much irritation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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In 1863 the jigger (P. penetrans) was not found in Western Africa; when I returned there in 1882 it had passed over from the Brazil and had become naturalised on the equatorial African seaboard. the Arabs call shrimps and prawns
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The settlement is ill-famed for the Chigo or jigger (_Pulex penetrans_), unknown in my day upon the West African coast.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It is a curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the nigua or chegoe (Pulex penetrans).
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