We report a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis panamensis in nonendemic Costa Rica. A 19-year-old female presented with nonhealing, unilateral eruption of erythematous papules with superficial central ulceration in a sporotrichoid pattern on right upper arm and back. Given the clinical picture and geographic locale, the patient was initially diagnosed with myiasis or human botfly infestation; howe...

Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae, which, at least for a certain period, feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances, or ingested food. Intestinal myiasis is usually an accidental phenomenon, which occurs due to the ingestion of eggs or larvae present in food. Usually the patient is asymptomatic and the larvae are excreted...

We report here a case of oral myiasis in the Republic of Korea. The patient was a 37-year-old man with a 30-year history of Becker's muscular dystrophy. He was intubated due to dyspnea 8 days prior to admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). A few hours after the ICU admission, 43 fly larvae were found during suction of the oral cavity. All maggots were identified as the third instars of Luci...

Myiasis-causing larvae were extracted from dogs attending veterinary clinics in Plateau State, Nigeria and subjected to molecular analysis involving polymerase chain reaction amplification of the 28S rRNA gene of blowflies, cloning and sequencing techniques. All larvae were confirmed as Cordylobia anthropophaga Blanchard (Diptera: Calliphoridae) after the initial morphological identificati...

Ophthalmomyiasis can have variable presentation depending on the type of fly, structures involved, and level of penetration. A 42-year-old female presented with extensive myiasis of the right eye. A lesion of 3×2 cm was noted at the medial canthus and was infested with maggots. The larvae were removed meticulously and the wound debrided. The larva isolated was that of Chrysomya bezziana (Old Wo...

Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with maggots that feed on host’s dead or living tissue, depending life cycle fly. It a rare condition often misdiagnosed. Tropical subtropical regions world are commonly affected. The aim this case report to share uncommon cutaneous health workers also remind them its common symptoms signs such diagnosis not missed. An 11-year-old ...

contamination of human and animal body tissues with flies’ larvae and diptera cause myiasis. a 26 yr old female patient refers to kashan shahid beheshti hospital, central iran because of urogenital infection, pain in the right part of stomach, smelly and reddish vaginal discharge and frequent urination. in the first checking, urine sample was taken. in the sample, active and alive larvae were s...

Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica are aerobic, non-motile, gram-negative rods, first described by Toth et al. in 2008. A small number of cases W. infections have been reported worldwide. These bacteria transmitted through fly larvae open wounds skin and/or mucosal surfaces on the host. is pathogenic to humans and can cause severe diseases like septicemia osteomyelitis. Herein, we report identifi...

myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. this article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from zanjan city, northwest of iran. we discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.

Myiasis is a parasitic infection caused by dipteran larvae settling in living tissue and organs. Infestation is generally found in tropical and rural areas, where interaction with animals is common. It is diagnosed based on the evidence of the existence of dipteran larvae in tissues and organs. When planning the treatment, identifying the type of larvae is as important as identifying the infect...