External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by a Rare Infesting Larva, Sarcophaga argyrostoma

External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by a Rare Infesting Larva, Sarcophaga argyrostoma

Purpose. External ophthalmomyiasis (EO) is caused by infesting larvae belonging to various species of flies. Most documented cases result from sheep (Oestrus ovis) and Russian (Rhinoestrus purpureus) botfly larvae, but we recently discovered a rare case of EO caused by flesh fly (Sarcophaga argyrost...

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Main Authors: Shmuel Graffi, Avi Peretz, Amos Wilamowski, Heather Schnur, Fouad Akad, Modi Naftali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/850865
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