CREEPING ERUPTION (LARVA MIGRANS): REPORT OF CASE CONTRACTED AT WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY

Creeping eruption, or larva migrans, first described by Lee in 1874, is a relatively rare disease in this country. There are only thirteen references in the literature to the disease occurring in the United States. These cases were reported by Van Harlingen,¹ Stelwagon,² Hamburger,³ Shelmire,⁴ Hutchins,⁵ Moorhead,⁶ Gosman,⁷ Haase,⁸ Kirby-Smith,⁹ Knowles,¹⁰ Gaskill,¹¹ Whitehouse¹² and by Fox.¹³ In many of these reported cases the disease was contracted in the southern part of the United States.

A number of cases of larva migrans have been reported as occurring in various countries, particularly in Russia, in which the disease is most common; it is also common in the Shetland Islands and in Norway. According to Lee, it is common among Arabian children, whose mothers burn the part with a hot wire.

Extensive studies of this disease have been made, notably