First Record of Urogenital Myiasis Induced by Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran
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Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.Biery TL, Clegern RW, Hart WW (1978) Two cases of phorid (Diptera: Phoridae) myiasis in Texas. J Med Entomol. 15:122–23.
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