Ocular myasis and associated mucopurulent conjunctivitis in human eyes is a rare phenomenon. However, if the sheep bot fly abounds and poor hygienic environment prevails, the Oestrous ovis deposits its larvae in the conjunctival eye sac of human. The present paper reports a case study of ocular myasis among sheep farm workers caused by Oestrous ovis. The ocular myasis and the associated mucopur...

Myasis is the infestation of skin by larvae or maggots of a variety of flies. It is a condition that occurs more commonly in adults who are living and/or have visited tropical countries. It rarely occurs in neonates, and even when seen, only few larvae are extracted. This case report describes myasis occurring in an 11-day-old female who had 47 larvae in her skin.

A two-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel was presented with accidentally observed larvae in fresh feces, which were identified as rat-tailed of the common drone fly (Eristalis tenax). This can cause facultative myiasis both humans and animals. Although myasis has already been described humans, to authors’ knowledge, this is first description such a case an animal Belgium.

conclusions: the myiasis is an uncommon disease in iran and physicians should be aware of this disease, especially if there are non-healing lesions on exposed skin and worm-like protruding lesion. introduction: myiasis is a parasitic infestation of the body by fly larvae. the common hosts of this larva are the animals, but in some cases it can also affect the human, which is rarely reported in ...