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    myiasis. Because some animals (particularly non-native domestic animals) cannot react as effectively as humans to the causes and effects of myiasis,...
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  • called vulvar myiasis. Very few cases have been described in literature. Passos MR, Carvalho AV, Dutra AL, et al. (1998). "Vulvar myiasis". Infect Dis...
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    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...
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    attacking crops and foodstuffs, spreading microbial infections, and causing myiasis. Maggots are also particularly important in forensic entomology because...
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    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...
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    Cordylobia anthropophaga Human parasite List of parasites of humans Myiasis "Human Bot Fly Myiasis" (PDF). U.S. Army Public Health Command (provisional), formerly...
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    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...
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    common causes of myiasis in humans and animals are the three dipteran families Oestridae, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae. Myiasis in humans is clinically...
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    of human intestinal myiasis of the rat-tailed maggot (larva of Eristalis tenax). Zumpt proposed a hypothesis called "rectal myiasis". During open defecation...
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    fishing. Occasionally, cases have been documented of human intestinal myiasis caused by the rat-tailed maggot. Symptoms can range from none (asymptomatic)...
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