| the decomposition of rabbit carcasses and associated necrophagous diptera in kuwait. | rabbit carcasses were used to compare rates of decomposition and associated assemblages of diptera at four discernable habitat types in kuwait; a country of a region with a paucity of such reference data. carcasses in an urban habitat showed faster decomposition (as measured by percentage weight loss) than in agricultural, coastal or desert habitats, even with accumulated degree days (add) as the explanatory variable (t=2.73, df=34, p=0.010) to compensate for temperature differences. taxa of dip ... | 2011 | 22018747 |
| myiasis in kuwait: nosocomial infections caused by lucilia sericata and megaselia scalaris. | myiasis, the invasion of live human tissue by larvae of diptera, is reported in the nasopharynx and a leg wound in two patients who were hospitalized for more than 72 hours in mubarak al-kabeer teaching hospital in kuwait city, kuwait. on the fourth and fifth days after a 10-year-old kuwaiti boy was admitted to the hospital intensive care unit in a bloodied and comatose state following a traffic accident, 'worms' that came out of his nostrils were fixed, cleared, and identified as second and thi ... | 2004 | 15100451 |