Souvenirs from Belize: The botfly and the screwworm fly

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 868-870

  Sweis, Iliana E ^a,b   Herold Griffith, B ^a,b   Pensler, Jay M ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University Medical School ^*

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELIZE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYIASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BELIZE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYIASIS; SCALP; SCREW WORM INFECTION; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030940981     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199703000-00041     Document Type: Article

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