Role of Ivermectin in the Treatment of Severe Orbital Myiasis Due to Cochliomyia hominivorax

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15 September 2006

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Vol. 43 (6) , e57-e59
DOI:10.1086/507038
PMID:16912935

Abstract

We describe 2 patients with severe orbital myiasis due to Cochliomyia hominivorax (of the order Diptera and the family Calliphoridae) who had underly

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