Abstract:
All the available literature on urinary and urino-genital myiasis in humans is reviewed, and an authenticated case of urino-genital myiasis from a rural agrarian community near Peshawar (Pakistan) is reported. The patient, a girl of 18 years, reported to a hospital at Peshawar with complaints related to urinary system. Several full grown larvae of Sepsidae family were spontaneously voided in the urine, and were also reported to be observed by cystoscopy as well as in the catheter specimen. The patient remained hospitalized for about a month at each of the two major hospitals, at Peshawar but the disease could not be cured satisfactorily, and excretion of the larvae continued at intervals over a long period of time. At a later stage, two more species (Musca domestica and an unidentified species of Drosophilidae) got involved apparently as secondary infections. The sepsid larva, which caused the primary infection, is described, and possible mode of infection is discussed.
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81-93
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DOI not available
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Journal: Bulletin of zoology, Volume: 2, Issue: , Year: 1984