Nosocomial Oral Myiasis by Sarcophaga sp. in Turkey.
We present a case of oral myiasis in a 15-year-old boy with tuberculosis meningitis. The diagnosis was based on the visual presence of wriggling larvae about 1 cm in size and on the microscopic features of the maggots, especially those relating to stigmatic structures. The larvae were identified as third-stage larvae of Sarcophaga sp.
Department of Parasitology, Erciyes University Medical Faculty, Kayseri, Turkey. syazar@erciyes.edu.tr
Süleyman
S
Yazar
Bilal
B
Dik
Saban
S
Yalçin
Funda
F
Demirtaş
Ozan
O
Yaman
Mustafa
M
Oztürk
Izzet
I
Sahin
D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D004175:Diptera; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000469:parasitology*; D009198:Myiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000150:complications; D014421:Turkey