Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey

We present a case of oral myiasis in a 15-year-old boy with tuberculosis meningitis. The diagnosis was based on the visual presence of wriggling larvae about 1 cm in size and on the microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigmatic structures. The larvae were identified as...

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Autores principales: Yazar, Süleyman, Dik, Bilal, Yalçın, Şaban, Demirtaş, Funda, Yaman, Ozan, Öztürk, Mustafa, Şahin, İzzet
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15988817
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.3.431
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author Yazar, Süleyman
Dik, Bilal
Yalçın, Şaban
Demirtaş, Funda
Yaman, Ozan
Öztürk, Mustafa
Şahin, İzzet
author_facet Yazar, Süleyman
Dik, Bilal
Yalçın, Şaban
Demirtaş, Funda
Yaman, Ozan
Öztürk, Mustafa
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description We present a case of oral myiasis in a 15-year-old boy with tuberculosis meningitis. The diagnosis was based on the visual presence of wriggling larvae about 1 cm in size and on the microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigmatic structures. The larvae were identified as third-stage larvae of Sarcophaga sp.
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spelling pubmed-28158222010-02-04 Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey Yazar, Süleyman Dik, Bilal Yalçın, Şaban Demirtaş, Funda Yaman, Ozan Öztürk, Mustafa Şahin, İzzet Yonsei Med J Case Report We present a case of oral myiasis in a 15-year-old boy with tuberculosis meningitis. The diagnosis was based on the visual presence of wriggling larvae about 1 cm in size and on the microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigmatic structures. The larvae were identified as third-stage larvae of Sarcophaga sp. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2005-06-30 2005-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2815822/ /pubmed/15988817 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.3.431 Text en Copyright © 2005 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yazar, Süleyman
Dik, Bilal
Yalçın, Şaban
Demirtaş, Funda
Yaman, Ozan
Öztürk, Mustafa
Şahin, İzzet
Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title_full Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title_fullStr Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title_full_unstemmed Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title_short Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey
title_sort nosocomial oral myiasis by sarcophaga sp. in turkey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15988817
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2005.46.3.431
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