Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animal with dipterous larvae which feed on the host's dead or living tissue. A case of oral myiasis in the maxillary anterior region in a 42-year-old female with neurologic deficit caused by the larvae (maggots) of Musca Nebulo (Family Diptera) is reported. The treatment consisted of manual removal of the larvae by topical application of t...

contamination of human and animal body tissues with flies’ larvae and diptera cause myiasis. a 26 yr old female patient refers to kashan shahid beheshti hospital, central iran because of urogenital infection, pain in the right part of stomach, smelly and reddish vaginal discharge and frequent urination. in the first checking, urine sample was taken. in the sample, active and alive larvae were s...

Myiasis is the infestation of humans with dipterous larvae. Traditionally, myiasis was thought to affect individuals living in tropical regions, however, several cases in temperate zones have been reported. We encountered two patients with histories of malignancies that presented with complaints of myiasis, in Chicago, in the spring and summer of 2016. The first patient, a 54-year-old female wi...

Myiasis refers to Diptera larvae infesting vertebrate animals. There are two forms of the disease: primary and secondary. In primary myiasis, fly larvae invade and develop in healthy tissue; in secondary myiasis, flies lay their eggs in skin ulcerations, and the larvae develop in tissue necrosis products. Furuncular myiasis is a type of primary myiasis. Treatment for it consists of techniques s...

Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with maggots that feed on host’s dead or living tissue, depending life cycle fly. It a rare condition often misdiagnosed. Tropical subtropical regions world are commonly affected. The aim this case report to share uncommon cutaneous health workers also remind them its common symptoms signs such diagnosis not missed. An 11-year-old ...

Myiasis is the condition or conditions resulting from the invasion of the tissues and organs of man and other animals by the eggs or larvae of dipterous flies. Such invasion may be simple, i.e. without any severe constitutional disturbances, or may result in violent disturbances causing even death. According to the site of invasion one may have cutaneous, dermal, intestinal, urinary, nasal, ora...

Myiasis is a condition in which fly maggots feed off, and develop in, the tissues of living organisms. True myiasis results from files deliberately laying eggs in or on the tissues. There are two forms of myiasis: obligate, in which it is necessary for the maggots to feed on living tissues, and facultative, where files opportunistically take advantage of wounds or degenerative necrotic conditio...

"Myiasis" is a parasitic infestation of live human or vertebrate animal tissues or cavities caused by dipterous larvae (maggots) which feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances or ingested food. They are extremely rare in Western countries, especially in E.N.T. practice, and to the best of our knowledge, only two cases of myiasis in a tracheostomy wound have been reported...

We describe here a rare case of traumatic myiasis occurred in August 2014, caused by an association of 2 Diptera species, Sarcophaga tibialis Macquart (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) and Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), in a domestic cat in northern Italy. Species identification was based on adult male morphology. The present case is the first report of S. tibialis as an agent of my...