Human Urinary Myiasis Caused by Eristalis tenax in Palestine: A Case Report

Walid Basha

doi:10.18502/ijpa.v18i1.12392

Walid Basha Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/ijpa.v18i1.12392

Keywords: Myiasis; Eristalis; Urinary

Abstract

In humans and other mammals, urinary myiasis can be rarely caused by Eristalis tenax, which belongs to the order Diptera. In this case, we report a 21-year-old woman with this myiasis. She was complaining of dysuria and bilateral Costo-lumbar pain. The larva in her urine sample was identified as E. tenax associated with its typical morphology.