Intestinal Myiasis Caused by Eristalis tenax
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Intestinal myiasis caused by Eristalis tenax.
Myiasis is the infestation of live humans and other vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae which, at least for a certain period, feed on the host’s dead or living tissue, liquid body substances, or ingested food (3). Clinically, myiasis may be classified as cutaneous, atrial, wound, intestinal, or urinary, depending on the location of the fly larvae. Intestinal myiasis due to the larvae of th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.9.3082-3082.1999