It's the first of the month and time for a case from Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp!
The following images show an object that dropped out of a patient's nose 😮. What is your identification?
Wishing all of my American readers a very happy and restful Labor Day.
4 comments:
Botfly?
For sure a botfly, though I can only say that the history where the larva came from and the morphology of its mandible are compatible with Cochliomyia hominovorax.
Florida Fan
It looks like bot fly larvae, hazarding a guess of Oestrus ovi.
After more searches on the morphology of the stigma and mandible, I believe the identification of Oestrus ovis makes sense.
Florida Fan
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