intestinal myiasis

Such behaviour is known as enteric or intestinal myiasis.

Intestinal myiasis and urinary myiasis are especially difficult to diagnose.

A twenty year-old male from a rural part of India was reported with a rare case of intestinal myiasis.

Flesh flies, or sarcophagids, members of the family Sarcophagidae, can cause intestinal myiasis in humans if the females lay their eggs on meat or fruit.

Larvae or eggs can reach the stomach or intestines if they are swallowed with food and cause gastric or intestinal myiasis.

One species, Poecilosomella angulata, has been implicated in human intestinal myiasis (Micks & McKibbon 1956).

There have occasionally been documented cases of human intestinal Myiasis of the rat-tailed maggot (larva of Eristalis tenax).