@AndreaLConroy @ChandyJohnLab Hi friend! Cordylobia anthropophaga infestations usually respond well to lateral pressure, given that the larvae lack radial spines & are therefore unanchored in the domicile. Suffocating with a bit of vaseline first can a
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
RT @BoggildLab: 1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equiva…
4/6 For a peri-ocular presentation of locally acquired Cuterebra spp. see our paper in @CMAJ which also reports a case of multidomiciliary Dermatobia hominis infection of the anterior chest wall in a traveler to Belize: https://t.co/mZXsLgmf8J @SarahKohlMD
1/6 One of the most gratifying aspects of my practice is extracting maggots from skin. It’s the tropical medicine MD equivalent of delivering a baby, except of course instead of swaddling the bundle & handing off to mom we kinda kill it in formalin🤷♀️
RT @BoggildLab: 11/19 One of the most common parasitic causes of skin nodules is myiasis (maggot infestation of skin). See @CMAJ paper: htt…
RT @BoggildLab: 11/19 One of the most common parasitic causes of skin nodules is myiasis (maggot infestation of skin). See @CMAJ paper: htt…
11/19 One of the most common parasitic causes of skin nodules is myiasis (maggot infestation of skin). See @CMAJ paper: https://t.co/mZXsLgmf8J as well as our inaugural paper on use of commercial venom extractors for larval extraction: https://t.co/O9sJ2ht
@CardiacPA1 @amydjohn @mishrash @KTamirisaMD @hvanspall @fitmslax @DrHowardLiu @DocWoc71 @JillWeather @GermHunterMD @arghavan_salles @karenerrichetti Now, this one isn’t technically a worm, however, I am posting b/c the “worm” emoji in twitter appears to b
I vote for eviction 😊. See our CMAJ paper below on multiple Dermatobia hominis bots per domicile in a returned traveler to Belize for details on our preferred removal strategy: https://t.co/KJEgdevGx7 #myiasis #humanbotfly #vectorbornediseases
Saw "the extractor" in use today. Don't forget myiasis in your ddx of pt w ssti w punctum #myiasis #botfly #tumbufly https://t.co/kLYZ7uitk5 https://t.co/LwVo1sZMdW
Imported and locally acquired human myiasis in Canada: a report of two cases. http://t.co/0wJem8MuOi