First Record of Urogenital Myiasis Induced by Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran

Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and manage...

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Autores principales: Ghavami, Mohammad Bagher, Djalilvand, Ahmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623439
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description Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.
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spelling pubmed-46627992015-11-30 First Record of Urogenital Myiasis Induced by Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran Ghavami, Mohammad Bagher Djalilvand, Ahmad J Arthropod Borne Dis Case Report Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4662799/ /pubmed/26623439 Text en Copyright© Iranian Society of Medical Entomology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_short First Record of Urogenital Myiasis Induced by Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623439
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