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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar;67(3):404-405.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1391_18.

External ophthalmomyiasis due to Oestrus ovis

Parthopratim Dutta Majumder  1 , Pankaj Jeswani  1 , Narayanaperumal Jeyathilakan  2 , Jyotirmay Biswas  1
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Case Reports

External ophthalmomyiasis due to Oestrus ovis

Parthopratim Dutta Majumder et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2019 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Conjunctivitis; Oestrus ovis; external ophthalmomyiasis.

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Figure 1
(a) Slit-lamp photograph (magnified) view of conjunctiva near lateral canthus showing three first instar larvae of Oestrus ovis (b) Microscopic photograph of a first instar larva of Oestrus ovis (c) Anterior end of larva equipped with cephalopharyngeal skeleton showing two large dark sharply curved oral hooks, hypopharyngeal sclerites and elongated rod-shaped pharyngeal sclerites
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