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Myiasis of a perineal fistula

Parassitologia, ISSN: 0048-2951, Vol: 44, Issue: 3-4, Page: 201-202
2002
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We report a case of myiasis of a rectocutaneous fistula in a subject suffering from bone metastases after surgical resection of a neoplastic bladder The fistula was infested by maggots identified as third-instar larvae of flies belonging to the family Sarcophagidae, genus Sarcophaga. The infestation was neither intestinal nor pseudointestinal; it was probably caused by a fly ovipositing on the fistula of the patient while having wound care at home, even though the possibility that the infestation might have occurred during hospitalization cannot be ruled out.

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E. M. Zardi; A. Picardi; S. Costantino; A. Iori; V. Petrarca

Immunology and Microbiology

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