symptoms are not specific. Intestinal myiasis and urinary myiasis are especially difficult to diagnose. Clues that myiasis may be present include recent travel...

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...

human host (myiasis). This important distinction between C. macellaria and C. hominivorax was not understood for much of medical history; myiasis of humans...

therapy, are commonly used in forensic entomology, and can be the cause of myiasis in livestock and pets. The common green bottle fly emerges in the spring...

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...

sold for ice fishing. Very rarely, hoverfly larvae have caused accidental myiasis in humans. This occurs when the larvae are accidentally ingested from contaminated...