Urinary Canthariasis Due to Tenebrio molitor Larva in a Ten-Year-Old Boy

• Autors principals: Mohammad Hassan Aelami (Autor), Alireza Khooei (Autor), Hamidreza Ghorbani (Autor), Farrokh Seilanian-Toosi (Autor), Elham Poustchi (Autor), Bibi Razieh Hosseini-Farash (Autor), Elham Moghaddas (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Canthariasis is a human disease caused by infestation of beetle larvae. We report here an unusual cause of urogenital in­fection due to Tenebrio molitor in a 10-year-old boy suffering from severe and intermittent suprapubic pain from Nehban­dan City, Northeastern Iran in 2018. After 9 months, three...