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Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Phthiriasis palpebrarum: an uncommon cause of ocular irritation

Lucy M. Lu
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1 Department of Ophthalmology, Waikato Hospital, Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Lucy Lu, Department of Ophthalmology, Waikato Hospital, Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand. Email: lucymmlu@gmail.com

Journal of Primary Health Care 10(2) 174-175 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC17070
Published: 19 June 2018

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2018.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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