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External ophthalmomyiasis caused by the sheep bot Oestrus ovis L.
A 17-year-old girl presented to the Casualty Department of St Paul's Eye Hospital, Liverpool, with a foreign body sensation in the right eye for 2 days. Two days previously she was on a beach in Palma Nova in Majorca. She thought sand had blown into her eye. She did not remember ever having been struck in the eye or face by any insects. On examination the conjunctiva of the right eye was mildly...
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IntrodUl .. :tion Human ophLhalmomyiasis due to infestation with the larvae of the sbeep nasal bot fl y Oestrus ovi.\· has beeo known for 70 ye_ars l and the parasite is widely distributed in the Mediterranean , Russia , lndia, South Afri ca, Canada and th e USA. There has been no report of cases from Cyprus in spite of many cases occurring each year am ong the local community. Three ~ases of O...
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Human myiasis has been reported from various regions in the world. We report a human case of external ophthalmomyiasis caused by the larvae of a sheep nasal botfly oestrus ovis from Wadi Alhawasna, North Batina, Oman. A 9-years-old boy presented with symptoms of acute conjunctivitis. Five larvae were removed from his eye and sent for identification. The patient recovered completely after remova...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2146-3158
DOI: 10.5799/jmid.657895