Tumbu and botflies: An underestimated nuisance for travellers in Africa and South America?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1304, 2009, Pages 126-127

  Edwardes, Brennan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BOTFLY; FLY; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; KENYA; LETTER; MAGGOT; MYIASIS; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITISM; SKIN PAIN; SKIN PRURITUS; SOUTH AMERICA; TRAVEL; TUMBU;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIPTERA; HUMANS; LARVA; MYIASIS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SELF CARE; SOUTH AMERICA; TRAVEL;

EID: 70449515130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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