A Hypoderma diana (Diptera: Hypodermatidae) infection in a horse.
An infection with second-stage larvae of the warble-fly H. diana in a horse is described. The second-stage larvae were incapable of developing into the third stage, because horses are unsuitable hosts and because the infected horse was treated with an insecticide. Since the horse was used for dragging trees in the forests, the infection was likely contracted via contact with H. diana, a normal parasite of roe deer in the Netherlands.
Hendrikx
W M
WM
Dept. Infectoius Diseases and Immunology, Veterinary Faculty, State University Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jansen
J
J
de Vries
T J
TJ
D000818:Animals; D006734:Horse Diseases; D006736:Horses; D007000:Hypodermyiasis / Q000662:veterinary*