Dermatozoonosis can be defined as any skin alteration caused by occasional or permanent
noxious action of protozoans, coelenterates, insects, and larvae, acting as parasites
or not, in any phase of their biologic cycle. The harmful effect of these diseases
occurs by toxic action of substances in contact with the skin, direct contact with
the body of certain aggressors, inoculation of toxic substances through stings or
bites, and finally by the agent’s penetration of and permanent residence inside the
skin. This permanence can be forever, during certain phases of the biologic cycle
of the aggressor, or as a way by which the parasite reaches other organs. Parasitic
agents may exclusively affect humans or other animals, and stings, bites, or contact
with the body or substances cause nonparasitic lesions.
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