PURPOSE To present a case of massive orbital myiasis. CASE REPORT An 87-year-old debilitated woman suffering from left ocular pain of four days' duration presented with a severely necrotized left orbit and several attached live larvae. The upper and lower eyelids and the eyeball were completely destroyed. She had history of eyelid surgery in the same eye due to a skin lesion, apparently some ...

wound or traumatic myiasis is the infestation of animal and human orifices or wounds by dipterous larvae. it is more common in tropical and sub-tropical countries. c h rysomya bezziana is a major agent of wound myiasis throughout the tropical regions of the old world. in iran many cases of human myiasis due to c . bezziana were reported from south and south-east of country.this study reports a ...

BACKGROUND Wound myiasis in the Indian subcontinent is most commonly caused by old world screw-worm (Chrysomya bezziana). CASE REPORT AND MANAGEMENT A 4-year-old malnourished girl presented with full thickness rectal prolapse following acute diarrhea with a large wound and screwworm myiasis of the rectum. Turpentine oil was applied to immobilize the maggots followed by manual extraction. Prol...

Myiasis is the invasion of animal or human tissues by the larval stage of flies (Diptera). It is an accidental infestation in human. In this report a rural fifty-six-year old patient with myiasis on the scalp is presented. He was referred to clinic with a mass on his left temporo-occipital area. There was no history of trauma to his head or presence of ulcer on his scalp. In physical examinatio...

Regional surveys were carried out in different parts of North West Pakistan among domestic animals (N=57,921) including pets and livestock identifying cases of traumatic myiasis (n=1037). A total of four surveys focused general livestock population during Eid ul Adha (Eid surveys; incidence=1.21%) while another four surveys (Miscellaneous surveys; incidence=7.34%) targeted animal population bro...

This study was carried out to determine the role of non-biting cyclorrhaphan flies as carriers of human intestinal parasites at Woreta, northwestern Ethiopia. In total, 6530 flies were collected from four breeding sites and then examined for human intestinal parasites, mainly using the formol-ether concentration method. Fly species identified were Musca domestica (32.9%), Chrysomya rufifacies (...