Abstract
Conclusions
From 60 volunteers fed with living maggots of Musca domestica, Calliphora, and Sarcophaga, under conditions to avoid their destruction in the stomach, only 10 failed to have symptoms of gastrointestinal disturbance.
In 50 cases men had nausea, vomiting, intestinal cramps and diarrhea together or as separate symptoms, but all symptoms disappeared within 48 hours following the elimination of the larvæ, of which only a few were found alive in the vomitus and stools.
These findings seem to indicate that though temporary gastro-intestinal distress may follow the ingestion of such dipterous larvae as Musca damestica, Calliphora, and Sarco-phaga, they do not produce a true intestinal myiasis in man.
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