Author: Ella J Harrison-Hansley / Editor: Ryan C Hobbs / Reviewer: Kathryn Blackmore / Codes: SLO1, SLO5, TP10Published: 09/09/2021

A 46-year-old female, seen with her daughter, presents to the Emergency Department with a tick embedded in right upper chest wall.

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She had been walking her dogs in the local lanes. Once she had returned home she had felt an irritation on her chest wall and had found a tick embedded in her skin. DH antidepressant. AH nil. PMH nil.

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