{"title":"First Report of Human Nasal Myiasis Caused by Eristalis tenax in Iran (Diptera: Syrphidae).","authors":"M Salimi, H Edalat, A Jourabchi, Ma Oshaghi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a case of human nasal myiasis caused by flower fly larva in a 14-year-old rural girl in Central Province of Iran. Entomological studies on larva showed the larva as Eristalis tenax which is a rarely cause of nasal myiasis. This is the first reported case of E. tenax larva causing human nasal myiasis in Iran.</p>","PeriodicalId":14525,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Arthropod-borne Diseases","volume":"4 1","pages":"77-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/35/df/ijad-4-77.PMC3385543.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranian Journal of Arthropod-borne Diseases","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2010/6/30 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We report a case of human nasal myiasis caused by flower fly larva in a 14-year-old rural girl in Central Province of Iran. Entomological studies on larva showed the larva as Eristalis tenax which is a rarely cause of nasal myiasis. This is the first reported case of E. tenax larva causing human nasal myiasis in Iran.