Myiasis in female external genitalia

Myiasis is derived from the Greek word-“Myia”, meaning “fly”. The term was first introduced by Hope in 1840 and refers to the infestation of human beings with dipterous larvae (maggots). Presence of maggots on exposed parts is already known, but on covered parts like external genitalia it is very ra...

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Autores principales: Kataria, Usha, Siwach, Sunita, Gupta, Sanjeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339466
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.120555
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description Myiasis is derived from the Greek word-“Myia”, meaning “fly”. The term was first introduced by Hope in 1840 and refers to the infestation of human beings with dipterous larvae (maggots). Presence of maggots on exposed parts is already known, but on covered parts like external genitalia it is very rare. We hereby describe a case of young unmarried female who presented with multiple sinuses over external genitalia along with maggots coming out of it.
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spelling pubmed-38416652013-12-11 Myiasis in female external genitalia Kataria, Usha Siwach, Sunita Gupta, Sanjeev Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Myiasis is derived from the Greek word-“Myia”, meaning “fly”. The term was first introduced by Hope in 1840 and refers to the infestation of human beings with dipterous larvae (maggots). Presence of maggots on exposed parts is already known, but on covered parts like external genitalia it is very rare. We hereby describe a case of young unmarried female who presented with multiple sinuses over external genitalia along with maggots coming out of it. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3841665/ /pubmed/24339466 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.120555 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841665/
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