Oral myiasis misinterpreted as salivary gland adenoma

摘要

Myiasis (Myia: "Fly" in Greek), the term coined by Hope in 1840 is the infestation of living body tissues of animals by fly larvae. In 1965, Zumpt defined it as infestation of live humans and vertebrates with dipterous larvae, which at least for a certain period feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances or ingested food.' Flies causing myiasis belong to the order Diptera.