Journal:
:archives of clinical infectious diseases
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mohammad yasin department of infectious diseases, loghman teaching hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of infectious diseases, loghman teaching hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, makhsus street, south kargar street, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-55419211-98-9125453363, fax: +98-55417547
nina gozali asl department of infectious diseases, loghman teaching hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
amirhossein moghhtader mojdehi department of infectious diseases, loghman teaching hospital, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
masoud mardani infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
kamran akbarzadeh department of medical entomology and vector control, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
introduction wound myiasis is one of the common types of myiasis that demonstrates obligatory parasitic behavior. case presentation a 62-year-old homeless man presented with an abnormally growing and ruptured neck mass containing worms. he had wound myiasis caused by the larva of lucilia sericata in his previously punctured neck. discussion lucilia sericata can cause both facultative and obliga...
