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Introduction:
Wound myiasis is one of the common types of myiasis that demonstrates obligatory parasitic behavior.
Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, SBUMS
Wound Myiasis in a Sixty-Two-Year-Old Man
Author(s):
Mohammad Yasin1,*, 
Nina Gozali Asl1, Amirhossein Moghhtader Mojdehi1, Masoud Mardani2, Kamran Akbarzadeh31Department of Infectious Diseases, Loghman Teaching Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
2Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
3Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Published online:Jan 24, 2014
Article type:Case Report
Received:Apr 22, 2014
Accepted:May 09, 2014
How to Cite:Mohammad YasinNina Gozali AslAmirhossein Moghhtader MojdehiMasoud MardaniKamran AkbarzadehWound Myiasis in a Sixty-Two-Year-Old Man.Arch Clin Infect Dis.9(2):19659.https://doi.org/10.5812/archcid.19659.
Abstract
Case Presentation:
A 62-year-old homeless man presented with an abnormally growing and ruptured neck mass containing worms. He had wound myiasis caused by the larva of
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