Myiasis with Dermatobia hominis in a traveler returning from Costa Rica: Review of 33 cases imported from South America to Japan

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 285-288

  Haruki, Kosuke ^a   Hayashi, Toshihiko ^b   Kobayashi, Mutsuo ^b   Katagiri, Tomomi ^a   Sakurai, Yutaka ^a   Kitajima, Takuya ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN TAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; DERMATOBIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; JAPAN; LARVA; MALE; MYIASIS; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; THORAX; TRAVEL; VOLUNTEER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 30444455169     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2005.12509     Document Type: Review

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