DIEL LARVAL EXODUS IN THE SCREW-WORM FLY CHRYSOMYA BEZZIANA (VILLENEUVE)

Chemicals for control of the Old World screw-worm fly Chrysomya bezziana in Australia

Spread in South Africa of the Oriental latrine fly Chrysomya megacephala. (Fabricius) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), an introduced species closely resembling Chrysomya bezziana Villeneuve.

Chrysomya megacephala, also known as the Oriental latrine fly, is indigenous to south-east Asia. During the 1970's it successfully invaded Africa and South America, and more recently during the 1980's also established itself in the United States of America. Although the first specimens from South Africa were collected from the south-western Cape Province in 1978, no published data appears to ex...

Oral Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana in Anterior Maxilla

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. We hereby report a rare case of oral myiasis in a 70-year-old female wit...

A case of oral myiasis due to Chrysomya bezziana.

Chrysomya bezziana is a causative agent of obligatory myiasis. We report the first case of human infestation of Chrysomya bezziana in Hong Kong in an 89-year-old woman who had previously had a stroke. One day after hospital admission for fever, a small fissure at the labial gingiva of the upper incisors and several ulcerative lesions at the hard palate were noticed during routine mouth care. A ...

Cutaneous Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana Larvae, Mexico

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