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Fig. 1: A 4-year-old female with no previous medical history presented to the emergency department for a chief concern of a foreign body in her left eye with associated redness.

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  1. Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA, USA

    Kun Hsi Chu

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Alexander Kwok, Adriana Paula Grigorian & Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny

  3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA

    John B. Block

  4. Department of Pathology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Eric Rosenbaum

  5. Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny

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Kun Hsi Chu: Writing—review and editing, writing—original draft. Alexander Kwok: validation, supervision, data curation. Paula Grigorian: writing—review and editing, validation. John Block: writing—review and editing, validation. Eric Rosenbaum: writing—review and editing, validation. Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny: writing—review and editing, writing—original draft, validation, supervision, conceptualization.

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Chu, K.H., Kwok, A., Grigorian, A.P. et al. Conjunctival tick bite. Eye (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-025-03770-w

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