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This study aimed to characterize traumatic myiasis in wild animals admitted to a rehabilitation center in southeastern Turkey and to identify the causative dipteran species using integrated morphological and molecular approaches.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Eight wild animals with traumatic myiasis admitted between December 2020 and September 2022 were evaluated. Larvae collected during routine wound management were identified morphologically. Forty third-instar larvae, five from each clinical case, underwent mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequencing. Following quality control and within-case redundancy assessment, 11 representative study sequences were retained for comparative analyses. Species assignments were evaluated using sequence similarity, pairwise nucleotide divergence, and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 132 third-instar larvae were recovered. Four dipteran species were identified:\n                      <jats:italic>Lucilia sericata, Calliphora vomitoria, Calliphora vicina,<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Wohlfahrtia magnifica<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                      <jats:italic>L. sericata<\/jats:italic>\n                      was detected in six cases, and two common buzzards had mixed-species infestations. The 11 representative study sequences showed 99.52\u2013100.00% identity to verified GenBank references and were deposited under accession numbers OR642793\u2013OR642803. The final 624-bp phylogenetic dataset comprised 16 sequences (11 study sequences, four species-specific references, and one outgroup) and supported the morphological assignments. Traumatic myiasis was also documented in\n                      <jats:italic>Rafetus euphraticus<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Capra aegagrus<\/jats:italic>\n                      , representing potentially novel or rarely documented host associations.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Combined morphological examination and COI-based molecular analysis provided concordant species-level identification of myiasis-causing larvae in this small opportunistic wildlife case series. The findings expand descriptive knowledge of traumatic myiasis in wildlife from southeastern Turkey.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fvets.2026.1892985","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T04:26:28Z","timestamp":1791260788000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Traumatic myiasis in wild animals admitted to a rehabilitation center in southeastern Turkey"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Ayse Ekinci","family":"Yildiz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dicle Wild Animals Protection and Rehabilitation Practice and Research Center, Dicle University","place":["Diyarbakir, T\u00fcrkiye"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Duygu Neval","family":"Sayin \u0130pek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Dicle 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