Cutaneous myiasis due to Dermatobia hominis: Case report

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 1035, 1996, Pages 465-466

  Murdoch, David R ^a   Pilgrim, Robert L C ^b   Paltridge, Graeme P ^a  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LARVA; MYIASIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; SKIN; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; LARVA; MYIASIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030582605     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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