myiasis. Because some animals (particularly non-native domestic animals) cannot react as effectively as humans to the causes and effects of myiasis,...

called vulvar myiasis. Very few cases have been described in literature. Passos MR, Carvalho AV, Dutra AL, et al. (1998). "Vulvar myiasis". Infect Dis...

severe problems, and mainly causes cutaneous myiasis. Geary et al. describe the presentation of cutaneous myiasis caused by the tumbu fly: "At the site of...

attacking crops and foodstuffs, spreading microbial infections, and causing myiasis. Maggots are also particularly important in forensic entomology because...

known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis in humans. A botfly, also written bot fly, bott fly or bot-fly in various...

Cordylobia anthropophaga Human parasite List of parasites of humans Myiasis "Human Bot Fly Myiasis" (PDF). U.S. Army Public Health Command (provisional), formerly...

to immunity developed over time. In humans, the disease intracerebral myiasis is a rare infestation of the brain by the larva of H. bovis. It penetrates...

common causes of myiasis in humans and animals are the three dipteran families Oestridae, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae. Myiasis in humans is clinically...

of human intestinal myiasis of the rat-tailed maggot (larva of Eristalis tenax). Zumpt proposed a hypothesis called "rectal myiasis". During open defecation...

fishing. Occasionally, cases have been documented of human intestinal myiasis caused by the rat-tailed maggot. Symptoms can range from none (asymptomatic)...