Dr. Rosenbaum was made aware of this case when he was paged by a neurosurgeon. As a clinical pathologist, he was quite surprised to be asked to come to the operating room; however, he soon understood the request when he saw what was incidentally noted on the patient's skin during brain surgery:
This little arthropod was quite active and rather hard to catch (!) The patient is from the southeastern United States. Identification?
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