Incidence of multiple myiases in breasts of rural women and oral infection in infants from the human warble fly larvae in the humid Tropic-Niger Delta

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1069-1070

  Ogbalu, Ogugua K ^a,b,c   Achufusi, Ted George Ody ^a,b,c   Adibe, Chika ^a,b,c  

^a RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b National Primary Health Care Agency   (Nigeria)

^c Olympia College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYPODERMA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTITIS; MOUTH INFECTION; MYIASIS; NIGER; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BREAST DISEASES; DIPTERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LARVA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; MYIASIS; NIGER; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 33748256494     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2006.02983.x     Document Type: Article

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