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A case of furuncular myiasis in an Italian patient: a “travel souvenir”
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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Amphibian Strategies Against Attacks by Flies: Host-Specificity and Threats. [PDF]
Species interactions between Diptera flies and amphibians play a significant role in tropical ecosystems, but their ecology and evolution remain understudied. This review explores the costs flies impose on amphibians, such as pathogen transmission and disruption of communication systems, and highlights the evolutionary strategies employed by both ...
de Campos LLF +3 more
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The occurrence of dipterous fly larvae in human is termed as human myiasis. Human myiasis can be classified based on clinical condition it causes like cutaneous myiasis, ocular myiasis, urogenital myiasis and intestinal myiasis.
Venkataramana Kandi +9 more
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Severe Orbital Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana: A Case Report
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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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]
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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Mandibular myiasis: A case report
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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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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Urogenital Myiasis Caused by Psychoda Albipennis: A Case Report
Urogenital myiasis is one of the parasitic diseases of the urinary system. We report a case of urogenital myiasis caused by Psychoda albipennis in a 64-year-old male patient.
Ömer Kutlu +4 more
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