P-Final Flashcards
Anytime the larval stages of any dipteran fly are found in the tissues or organs of humans, domestic or wild animals
Myiasis
Myiasis based on location
- Enteric
- Rectal
- Urinary
- Auricular
- Dermal, subdermal, cutaneous
- Respiratory/nasopharyngeal
- Neurological
- Aberrant, Erratic
When the parasite is dependent upon the animal or human host for a certain portion of its life cucle
Obligatory Myiasis
When the larvae are normally free living but under certain circumstances they may adapt themselves to a parasitic existence
Facultative Myiasis
Vomit drop feeders
Musca Domestica
Calliphora sp.
Lucilia sp.
Sarcophaga sp.
What’s the identifying feature of vomit drop feeders?
Spiracular plates/spiracles
Cutaneous myiasis in sheep
Strike, Fly Strike, Fleece rot
The Primary Screwworm
Cochliomyia Homnivorax
("spiral maggot man eating")
- non-contaminated wounds
- 2 tracheal tubes
- REPORTABLEHorse bots
Gasterophilus sp.
Adult- Heel flies
Larvae- ox flies, cattle grub
Hypoderma bovis/lineatum
“below the skin”
- Gadding
Nasal bot fly
Oestrus ovis
- False gid
Wolves, warbles of dogs and cats
Cuterebra
