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

• Main Authors: Mohammad Hassan Aelami (Author), Alireza Khooei (Author), Hamidreza Ghorbani (Author), Farrokh Seilanian-Toosi (Author), Elham Poustchi (Author), Bibi Razieh Hosseini-Farash (Author), Elham Moghaddas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 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...