Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...

My patient is a young, married, unemployed woman. She came for evaluation because she "spat out worms" while brushing her teeth. The lab confirmed the "worm" to be an insect larva. Her CBC is normal ...