Nasal Myiasis: A Case Report

Shokrollah SALMANZADEH; Mahmoud RAHDAR; Sharif MARAGHI; Fatemeh MANIAVI

Iranian Journal of Public Health (Aug 2018)

Nasal Myiasis: A Case Report

Shokrollah SALMANZADEH,
Mahmoud RAHDAR,
Sharif MARAGHI,
Fatemeh MANIAVI

Affiliations

Shokrollah SALMANZADEH: Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jndishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Mahmoud RAHDAR: Dept. of Medical Mycoparasitology, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Sharif MARAGHI: Health Research Institute, Thalassemia, and Hemoglobinopathy Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Fatemeh MANIAVI: Shafa Hospital, Ahvaz Jndishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 47, no. 9

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Myiasis is caused by invasion of larvae stage of dipterans fly in living tissue of vertebrate host including human and animals. The most important family is Calliphoridae and included Calliphora, Lucilia, Chrysomyia and Cochliomyia genus. A 35-yr-old man with gastric cancer history referred to Golestan Hospital in Ahvaz Southwest of Iran in 2015. He was infected by nasal myiasis from Lucilia spp. in ICU. The genus of third larvae stage was identified by microscopic examination and culture of pupa. The population of flies inducing myiasis should be controlled in hospitals.

Published in Iranian Journal of Public Health

ISSN: 2251-6085 (Print); 2251-6093 (Online)
Publisher: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Country of publisher: Iran, Islamic Republic of
LCC subjects: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: http://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/IJPH/index

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