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SUBMITTER: Toussaint-Caire S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6159586 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toussaint-Caire Sonia S Woroszylski-Yoselevitz Alejandro A Vega-Memije Maria Elisa ME Villalobos Guiehdani G Rivas Nancy N Alejandre-Aguilar Ricardo R Romero-Valdovinos Mirza M Maravilla Pablo P Martinez-Hernandez Fernando F
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20181001 4
<i>Dermatobia hominis</i> is a fly endemic to and widely distributed throughout the Americas; it is found from the southern regions of Mexico to Argentina. However, because of widespread travel, myiasis has become common in countries where neither the disease nor the species that cause this infection are endemic. Central Mexico, for instance, is not a region where myiasis is endemic. We, thus, describe three cases of <i>D. hominis</i> myiasis: two autochthonous cases from the southern part of Me ...[more]