External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by a Rare Infesting Larva,Sarcophaga argyrostoma
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External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by a Rare Infesting Larva, Sarcophaga argyrostoma
Purpose. External ophthalmomyiasis (EO) is caused by infesting larvae belonging to various species of flies. Most documented cases result from sheep (Oestrus ovis) and Russian (Rhinoestrus purpureus) botfly larvae, but we recently discovered a rare case of EO caused by flesh fly (Sarcophaga argyrostoma) larvae. Here, we report the case of a patient with EO who had been hospitalized and sedated ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-6722,2090-6730
DOI: 10.1155/2013/850865