BACKGROUND Ocular myiasis though rare, is usually found in association with basal cell carcinoma. It is rarer still in tumors other than basal cell carcinoma. We report a case of ocular myiasis in a glioma which is hitherto unreported to the best of our knowledge. CASE A 50 year old male presented with bleeding and maggots emanating from a tumourous outgrowth which had replaced his right eye....

Myiasis is the invasion of body tissues of humans or animals by the larvae of the Diptera or two-winged flies. The various forms of myiasis may be classified from clinical or entomological point. This study describes the existence of Chrysomya bezziana (Diptera: Calliphoridae) cases as a causative agent of myiasis in 18 and 87 year-old men in two different regions in Fars Province. To our knowl...

Eristalis tenax, belonging to order Diptera, family Syrphidae seldomly causes intestinal myiasis. Intestinal myiasis caused by E. tenax larvae is a rare manifestation found in both humans and other vertebrate animals. We report a 22-year-old woman presented with this myiasis. The larva in her stool sample was identified as E. tenax related to its typical morphology and authentic clues. Lack of ...

Myiasis is a disease of vertebrate animals caused by different fly larvae. Wohlfahrtia magnifica is responsible for serious losses in animal husbandry in Eurasia. Larvae of W. magnifica parasitize several warm-blooded vertebrates and are responsible for a severe traumatic myiasis of mucosal membranes or wounds. This myiasis has been reported in many European areas, but for the...

Myiasis is a rare, worldwide, human disease with seasonal variation, caused by developing larvae of a variety of fly species. It can be dangerous when infestations penetrate into the brain. In the available literature, we have found only a few papers concerning ear myiasis caused by Lucilia sericata. Here, we report 2 cases of aural myiasis. Early intervention (surgical removal, occlusion) in t...

Complex wounds are common complications in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM), especially patients with aggressive malignancies. Myiasis, or an infestation of maggots, is a rare but significant complication such wounds. While uncommon the United States, many HPM have multiple risk factors comorbidities that increase their vulnerability to this condition. Currently, there no standard diagnost...

In this case report, a female adult red fox (Vulpes vulpes) found exhausted by the villagers in rural area of Eskişehir constituted study material. A rare myiasis disease was diagnosed Red Fox who examined Surgery Clinic Veterinary Health Application and Research Center. Myiasis is clinically important condition that can lead to wide variety diseases caused fly larvae. under consideration, mult...

There have been few reports of myiasis in domestic and pet animals in Nigeria although the presence of flies capable of causing the disease has been recorded in the country (LLOYD and DIPEOLU, 1974; DIPEOLU, 1975 a; 1977; IWUALA and OUALA, 1978). In the only available report on calliphorine myiasis of equids and bovines in Nigeria, MOHAMMED and HARTKE (1970) showed that Chrysomyia bezziana was ...

Myiasis, which is the dipteran parasitism of living vertebrates, occurs in several forms - ranging from benign to fatal, opportunistic to obligate - and seems to have evolved through two distinct routes: saprophagous and sanguinivorous. However, the convergent evolution of morphological and life-history traits seems to have had a major role in confusing the overall picture of how myiasis evolve...

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. Chrysomya 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 ca...