Myiasis of different organs has been reported from various regions in the world. Infection of the eye might appear as eyelids problems or conjunctiva (ophthalmomyiasis externa), or the larvae may invade into the eye (ophthalmomyiasis interna). We report 4 human cases of external ophthalmic myasis from Yazd province, in central region of Iran. All of them referred with symptoms of acute conjunct...

Myiasis is an animal or human pathogenic condition initiated by parasitic dipterous fly larvae feeding in the host's necrotic or living tissue. Here we report a case of external ophthalmomyiasis caused by Lucilia sericata in a 78-yr-old with a vascular tumor of the retina and surgery history, from Bijar City of Kurdistan Province, Iran in 2015. Associated symptoms included right eye pain with m...

Ophthalmomyiasis is a parasitic eye infection. Ayoung male went on a picnic with his family. After sudden blow of wind, he had a feeling of something struck in the eye, which quickly became swollen with severe itching and lacrimation. Atotal of 19 larvae in their instar stage were removed with fine forceps under topical anesthesia and slides were prepared for their identification, which came ou...

here we describe a case of ophthalmomyiasis in a male patient with basal cell carcinoma. during the operation several live and motile maggots were removed from the lesion. preliminary examination on the larvae confirmed their affiliation to the genus sarcophaga (diptera: sarcophagidae).this genus is widely distributed throughout the world and species are very difficult to identify. the authors ...

introduction ophthalmomyiasis is a rare disorder that is caused by invasion of dipterous larvae to necrotic tissues. case presentation an 80-year-old woman with invasive basal cell carcinoma (bcc) presented anabnormal growth of worm in her eye. she had ophthalmomyiasis caused by lucilia sericata larva in here nucleated eye. l. sericata is common all over the temperate and tropical regions, main...

A case of anterior internal ophthalmomyiasis is described. A 27-year-old female from Northern Brazil presenting with anterior uveitis and vitritis had a fly larva surgically removed from the anterior chamber of the left eye. The species was Cochliomyia hominivorax. The larva was covered by macrophages and foreign body giant cells characterizing a foreign body granulomatous reaction.

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...