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SUBMITTER: Maleki Ravasan N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547307 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maleki Ravasan Naseh N Shayeghi Mansoureh M Najibi Babak B Oshaghi Mohammad Ali MA
Journal of arthropod-borne diseases 20121231 2
Myiasis, the invasion of live human tissue by larva of Diptera, is reported in the nasal cavity of a 5.5-year-old Iranian girl. She was referred from Golestan Province to the Shaheed Rajaei Heart Center in Tehran. In the 41th day after admission, a live parasite was found in her nasal secretions suction identified presumably as a second instar larvae of a facultative myiasis, Woholfartia nuba (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), on the basis of mtDNA-COI and morphological characteristics. Since presence of ...[more]