Furuncular myiasis of the foot caused by the tumbu fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga: Report in a Medical Student Returning from a Medical Mission trip to Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 Cutaneous myiasis in humans is a temporary parasitic infestation of the skin by fly larvae or maggots of a variety of Dipteran families. In the United States, autochthonous cases of myiasis are infrequently seen.
Santo, Arben +2 more
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Neglected Myiasis Wound Presenting With Septic Shock: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Myiasis is larval infestation of tissues, particularly common in tropical, and subtropical regions, especially in pre‐existing wounds. Poor hygiene, inadequate wound care, and exposed wounds, can predispose to secondary bacterial infection. We report a case of neglected myiasis wound in a laborer from rural Nepal presenting with septic shock ...
Adhikari N, Das SK.
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A case of furuncular myiasis in an Italian patient: a “travel souvenir”
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022 Furuncular myiasis is a parasitosis of the skin that is commonly reported in the tropical areas and is caused by various agents including Dermatobia hominis.
Martina Silvestri +5 more
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Mandibular myiasis: A case report [PDF]
, 2022 Myiasis is a condition characterised by the infestation of live vertebrates with dipterous larvae. Myiasis is derived from the Greek word mya, meaning fly. Dipterans, (order Diptera), are two-winged insects known as true flies.
Bouckaert, MMR, Abdoola, I, Ibrahim, M
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Traumatic Myiasis Caused by an Association of <i>Sarcophaga tibialis</i> (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) and <i>Lucilia sericata</i> (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in a Domestic Cat in Italy [PDF]
, 2016 received: 2015-05-07 accepted: 2015-06-30 published: 2015-08-25© 2015, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http ...
Whitmore, D +4 more
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ZOONOTIC MYIASIS IN EGYPT: WITH REFERENCE TO NOSOCOMIAL OR HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED MYIASIS [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2014 The most important insects from medical point of view are the blood suckers or the insectborne diseases. Still others, almost non-blood suckers, but may attack man and animal to deposit their eggs or larvae of myiasis producing flies in skin, nose, eye ...
TOSSON MORSY
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Severe Orbital Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana: A Case Report
, 2021 An 88-year-old woman was brought to the hospital immediately after her neighbours noticed that she was bleeding from her right eye. On examination, her right eye was phthisic with maggot infestation of her right orbit.
Leni Tupang, Yuen Keat Gan, Yu Siang Ng
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Cutaneous myiasis in an elderly woman in Somaliland
International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2019 Background: Cutaneous myiasis is a self-limited skin infestation by developing fly larvae, with three clinical subtypes: furuncular, migratory, and wound myiasis.
Mukhtar A. Yusuf, MD +2 more
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Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 2015 Myiasis is a pathologic condition in humans occurring because of parasitic infestation. Parasites causing myiasis belong to the order Diptera. Oral myiasis is seen secondary to oral wounds, suppurative lesions, and extraction wounds, especially in individuals with neurological deficit.
Saravanan, Thalaimalai +3 more
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Genetic variants of MICB and PLCE1 and associations with non-severe dengue. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified susceptibility loci for dengue shock syndrome (DSS) at MICB rs3132468 and PLCE1 rs3740360. The aim of this study was to define the extent to which MICB (rs3132468) and PLCE1 (rs3740360)
Chau, Tran Nguyen Bich +69 more
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