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A case of human myiasis due to Hypoderma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

John Smart
John Smart
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)
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Cases of myiasis by Hypoderma in a human subject in Great Britain are of sufficient rarity to warrant the recording of the following case.

A larva taken from a “small abscess on the neck of a boy aged 10”, was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) by Mr Colin Matheson of the National Museum of Wales, with a request that it be identified. The specimen was not in particularly good condition but after examination it was determined as a fully grown first stage larva of Hypoderma bovis de G. (the “second stage” larva of MacDougall (1930), “third stage” of Laake (1921), “first stage” of Knipling (1935)).

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , April 1939 , pp. 130 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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