From: Treatment of tungiasis with a two-component dimeticone: a comparison between moistening the whole foot and directly targeting the embedded sand fleas
Whole foot treatment
Targeted treatment
Lesion typea
Median
(Min–max)
Viable lesion
4
(1–75)
5
(1–50)
Non-viable lesion
(0–30)
Manipulated lesion
1
(0–12)
(0–15)
All lesions
9
(1–94)
10
(2–70)