This study reports for the first time on the use of ethanolic extract of Ageratum conyzoides in women with breast myiasis. A total of fifty rural women were examined [ages 18-62 years old] and 17.25% had breast myiasis at the fishing settlements at Okoikri and Oyorokotor of Rivers State Nigeria. Women with cutaneous breast myiasis were treated with ethanolic leaf extracts of Ageratum conyzoides...

Amaury Coutinho, Brazil; Denise Mattos is a Social Worker at Servico Social, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, Brazil; Renato Lins is Bachelor in Science at NGO Amaury Coutinho; Habib Fraiha is Professor in Tropical Medicine at the Federal University of Para, Brazil Myiasis is a condition seen in both animals and humans caused by parasitic fly larvae feeding ...

Dermatobia hominis, the botfly, is indigenous to Central and South America. Its usual host is a mammal, often a horse or cow. Cutaneous furuncular myiasis, human infestation by the botfly, has rarely been reported. Symptoms of infestation include a locally painful, firm furuncular lesion, often with a centrally located pore. Due to their infrequent occurrence, these lesions are often misdiagnos...

a coloured plate illustrating its life-history, and notes of 40 cases of cutaneous myiasis, will appear in due course in the Indian Journal of Medical Research. As some time must elapse before this paper is published, I thought it might interest Medical and Veterinary Officers if I briefly stated the results of this investigation. On hatching out the first specimens of the fly, I thought it was...

Myiasis is a disease caused by fly larvae. The term "myiasis" is derived from the Greek word "myia" meaning fly. Aural myiasis is a rare clinical state and occurs frequently in children. In this article, six children with aural myiasis, caused by the fly larvae, are reported because of unusual presentation. All of the children with aural myiasis were associated with chronic otitis media. In the...