• Title of article

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

  • Author/Authors

    Ghavami، MohammadBagher نويسنده Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Ghavami, MohammadBagher , Djalilvand، Ahmad نويسنده Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Djalilvand, Ahmad

  • Issue Information
    فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی 0 سال 2015
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    274
  • To page
    280
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases
  • Serial Year
    2015
  • Journal title
    Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases
  • Record number

    2386166