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A 43-year-old female asked:

I have a bite on the back of my leg that has a small black hole the black part fills like a knot in the center and its reddish skin color around it even kinda like its a bruise with a black dot in center?

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Dr. Richard Romano
Internal Medicine 11 years experience
We would need to see the rash to understand it well. I wonder if it is Lyme disease.
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