Dinobdella
National Institutes of Health
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Abstract Dinobdella ferox is the most reported and studied leech species parasitizing mammalian mucus membranes. However, our…
Background Leeches have gained a fearsome reputation by feeding externally on blood, often from human hosts. Orificial…
THE blood-sucking parasitic leech Dinobdella ferox is an invertebrate of the phylum Annelida and class Hirudinea (Labadi and…
A 55-year-old man in Okagaki Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, pulled a nasal leech from his nostril in July 1987, after suffering from…