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A Case of Intestinal Myiasis in a Breast-fed Infant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

John Rennie
Affiliation:
(University of Aberdeen.)

Extract

On February 8th, 1923, I received three examples of living larvae of Musca domestica, from Dr James A. Stephen (Head of the Child Welfare Department of the Public Health Service, Aberdeen) with a statement that they “came from the bowel of a child, 4 months old, breast-fed, but having sugar on a teat.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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