A laboratory-based study for first documented case of urinary myiasis caused by larvae of Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) in Saudi Arabia

Korean Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-36

  Wakid, Majed H ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Flagellate; Megaselia scalaris; Myiasis; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLY; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; INFESTATION; INTESTINE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MAGGOT; MEGASELIA SCALARIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MYIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAUDI ARABIA; TRYPANOSOMA; URINALYSIS; URINARY MYIASIS; URINE RETENTION; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; URINE;

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MEGASELIA SCALARIS; PHORIDAE; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARVA; MYIASIS; PROTOZOA; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 52049120211     PISSN: 00234001     EISSN: 17380006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2008.46.1.33     Document Type: Article

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