ID#: 19575
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This young girl exhibited a cutaneous lesion on her right upper arm, which was diagnosed as a case of myiasis, an infection brought on when Dermatobia hominis fly larvae, or maggots, burrow into the host’s skin causing infection.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Kay Dewitt
Creation Date: 1966
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