{"title":"Facultative myiasis caused by rat-tailed maggots in a dog in Belgium","authors":"H. De Bosschere, A.-S. Platteeuw, A. Verstraeten","doi":"10.21825/vdt.85858","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A two-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel was presented with accidentally observed larvae in fresh feces, which were identified as rat-tailed larvae of the common drone fly (Eristalis tenax). This common drone fly can cause facultative myiasis in both humans and animals. Although facultative myasis has already been described in humans, to the authors’ knowledge, this is the first description of such a case in an animal in Belgium.","PeriodicalId":23487,"journal":{"name":"Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21825/vdt.85858","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"VETERINARY SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A two-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel was presented with accidentally observed larvae in fresh feces, which were identified as rat-tailed larvae of the common drone fly (Eristalis tenax). This common drone fly can cause facultative myiasis in both humans and animals. Although facultative myasis has already been described in humans, to the authors’ knowledge, this is the first description of such a case in an animal in Belgium.
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The Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift (ISSN 0303-9021) is a scientific journal that is published bimonthly (six issues per year). It presents mainly clinical topics and addresses itself to two very different readerships: the local Dutch speaking veterinarians in Belgium and the Netherlands, and the international veterinary and biomedical research community. Each issue contains scientific papers either in English, or in Dutch with an English abstract.