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Undiagnosed Delusional Infestation Leading to Severe Self-Inflicted Injuries: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in PsychiatryBackground Delusional infestation (DI), or delusional disorder, somatic type, is a rare psychiatric condition characterized by a fixed false belief of infestation despite lack of medical evidence. Patients frequently resist psychiatric care due to poor insight and somatic preoccupation, increasing the risk of delayed diagnosis and serious self‐harm ...
Xiaofeng Yan +2 more
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A Longitudinal Case of Shared Delusional Infestation [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Delusional infestation disorders are characterized by fixed but false beliefs about infection by a parasite, insect, or other living organism. Shared psychotic disorders are characterized by a single delusion instigated by a "primary" index patient and then induced in one or more "secondary" persons.
Daniel Romine +2 more
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Oral manifestations of delusional infestation: a case series [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background Delusional infestation (DI) is a rare psychotic disorder characterized by a patient’s false belief that the body is infested with living or non-living organisms in the absence of clinical evidence of disease.
Zahra Alsafwani +4 more
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Severe water intoxication and secondary depressive syndrome in relation to delusional infestation [PDF]
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2016 Jianbo Lai,1 Qiaoqiao Lu,1 Yi Xu,1,2 Shaohua Hu1,2 1Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2The Key Laboratory of Mental Disorder’s ...
Lai J, Lu Q, Xu Y, Hu S
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Clin Microbiol Rev, 2009 SUMMARYThis papers aims at familiarizing psychiatric and nonpsychiatric readers with delusional infestation (DI), also known as delusional parasitosis. It is characterized by the fixed belief of being infested with pathogens against all medical evidence. DI is no single disorder but can occur as a delusional disorder of the somatic type (primary DI) or
Roland W. Freudenmann, Peter Lepping
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Why Delusional Infestation should remain Delusional Infestation [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2020 Peter Lepping +2 more
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Delusional Infestation: Folie à Famille: A Rare Case [PDF]
Acta Dermato-VenereologicaFatma Yaprak +4 more
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Lurasidone treatment for delusional infestation in a patient with dementia
Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Delusional infestation has been described since 1894. The variety of treatments of delusional infestation has been administered in different atypical antipsychotic agents.
Yu-Ning Her +3 more
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The Diagnostic Workup, Screening, and Treatment Approaches for Patients with Delusional Infestation [PDF]
Dermatology and Therapy, 2023 Delusional infestation (DI) is a psychiatric disorder defined by the fixed, false belief that one has been infested by an organism without evidence to support this. Patients may present with skin lesions and report abnormal cutaneous sensations.
Skyler Coetzee +2 more
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Ekbom Syndrome: A Case Report [PDF]
Revista Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, 2020 Delusional parasitosis, also known as delusional infestation or Ekbom syndrome, is a somatic type of delusional disorder, usually mono‑symptomatic, in which patients are convinced they are being infested with animal parasites while no objective evidence ...
Ana Teresa Pereira +4 more
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