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Enteral myiasis causing acute dysentery: A case report

Author(s) -

Amirah Amir

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

tropical biomedicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.271

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 2521-9855

pISSN - 0127-5720

DOI - 10.47665/tb.38.1.024

Subject(s) - biology , myiasis , hermetia illucens , larva , polymerase chain reaction , enteral administration , cytochrome c oxidase , cytochrome c oxidase subunit i , microbiology and biotechnology , zoology , ecology , gene , mitochondrial dna , medicine , mitochondrion , genetics , parenteral nutrition

Enteral myiasis or intestinal myiasis is acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated with dipteran fly eggs or larvae. Here, we describe a patient with intestinal myiasis presenting with acute dysentery caused by the larva of Hermetia illucens. The larva was identified morphologically, and its species confirmed through molecular analysis using polymerase chain reaction and sequencing based on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (COI).

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