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Case Report: Outbreak of Nosocomial Myiasis by Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera, Calliphoridae) in a Hospital in Colima, Mexico. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2023
ABSTRACT. Myiasis in humans is a disease caused by larvae of various fly families. It mainly occurs in communities with poor sanitation and low socioeconomic status. Meanwhile intrahospital or nosocomial myiasis represents a rare phenomenon but is of relevance to public health.
Espinoza-Gómez F, Rojas-Larios F, Cruz-Sanchez S, Rodriguez-Hernandez A, Delgado-Enciso I.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Nosocomial Megaselia spiracularis Nasal Myiasis. [PDF]

Intern Med
Shimizu S, Hidaka Y, Ogino K.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Nasal Nosocomial Myiasis Infection Caused by Chrysomya bezziana (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Following the Septicemia: A Case Report

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2016
A 74 yr old woman from Gonabad, southern part of Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran was admitted to a Hospital of Gonabad, because of respiratory distress, exertional dyspnea and fever.
Seyed Farzin MIRCHERAGHI, Seyed Farzam MIRCHERAGHI, Hamed RAMEZANI AWAL RIABI, Arezoo PARSAPOUR   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Oral Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana in Anterior Maxilla

Case Reports in Dentistry, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014
Oral myiasis is a rare pathology and is associated with poor oral hygiene, alcoholism, senility, suppurating lesions, and severe halitosis. It arises from invasion of body tissues or cavities of living animals by maggots or larvae of certain dipterian flies. It is mostly reported in developing countries and in the tropics.
Ankur Aggarwal, M. Jonathan Daniel, Raju Singam Shetty, Boddu Naresh Kumar, C. H. Sumalatha, E. Srikanth, Shalu Rai, Rohit Malik, Maria Beatriz Duarte Gaviao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey

Yonsei Medical Journal, 2005
We present a case of oral myiasis in a 15-year-old boy with tuberculosis meningitis. The diagnosis was based on the visual presence of wriggling larvae about 1 cm in size and on the microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigmatic structures. The larvae were identified as third-stage larvae of Sarcophaga sp.
Sahin, Izzet, YAMAN, Ozan, ÖZTÜRK, Mustafa, DİK, Bilal, YALÇIN, Şaban, Yazar, Süleyman, Demirtaş, Funda   +6 more
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A Case of Human Oral Myiasis by Lucilia sericata in a Hospitalized Patient in Extremadura, Spain

Case Reports in Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Myiasis is the term used to describe infestations, both obligatory and accidental, in vertebrate animals and humans by dipteral larvae. The oral cavity is rarely affected by this infestation and the circumstances which can lead to oral myiasis include persistent mouth opening together with poor hygiene, or facial traumatism.
C. Pérez-Giraldo, I. Márquez-Laffón, M. T. Blanco, J. R. Muñoz del Rey, M. J. Chavero, M. A. Habela, A. C. Gómez-García, Jukka H. Meurman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maggot Therapy: The Science and Implication for CAM Part I—History and Bacterial Resistance

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 223-227, 2006., 2006
It is now a universally acknowledged fact that maggot therapy can be used successfully to treat chronic, long‐standing, infected wounds, which have previously failed to respond to conventional treatment. Such wounds are typically characterized by the presence of necrotic tissue, underlying infection and poor healing.
Yamni Nigam, Alyson Bexfield, Stephen Thomas, Norman Arthur Ratcliffe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species diversity of saprophagous flies (Diptera) in hospital grounds of Tehran, Iran [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران
Synanthropic flies are essential in transmitting various pathogens, producing myiasis, and their application in forensic entomology. The main objective of this study was to identify the medically important flies in the hospital grounds of Tehran.
Abbas Ali Mirzakhanlou, Mansoureh Shayeghi, Hassan Vatandoust, Arman Izadian, Zahra Karimi, Kamran Akbarzadeh   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Myiasis in the intensive care unit: report from Switzerland and review of worldwide cases

Swiss Medical Weekly
Nosocomial myiasis is seldom reported in Europe, and intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired myiasis is even rarer. Here, we describe the first report of hospital-acquired oral myiasis caused by Lucilia sericata occurring in a Swiss ICU.
Marine Monney, Jiri Hodecek, Jean-Marc Schwob, Niccolò Buetti, Jacques Schrenzel, Viviane Donner   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Data on Nosocomial Myiasis caused by Wohlfahrtia magnifica in Tunisia

Journal of Cytology & Histology, 2015
Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate with dipterous larvae that feed on the host's tissues. We report a case of a nosocomial oral myiasis in an unconscious patient.
Cheikhrouhou Fatma, Talbi Roua
openaire   +1 more source