Case of the month: Cutaneous myiasis in a returning traveller from the Algarve: First report of tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga, acquired in Portugal

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 236-239

  Curtis, S J ^a   Edwards, C ^a   Athulathmuda, C ^a   Paul, John ^b  

^a EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CORDYLOBIA ANTHROPOPHAGA; EGG LAYING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLY; HUMAN; LARVAL STAGE; MYIASIS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHADE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; LARVA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARVA; MIDDLE AGED; MYIASIS; PORTUGAL; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 33645571391     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028365     Document Type: Article

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