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CUTANEOUS MYIASIS CAUSED BY LARVAE OE CORDYLOBIA ANTHROPOPHAGA (BLANCHARD)
Author(s) -
VERALDI STEFANO,
BRUSASCO ALBERTO,
SUSS LUCIANO
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1993.tb02789.x
Subject(s) - myiasis , calliphoridae , maggot , medicine , larva , fly larvae , dermatology , skin lesion , lesion , thigh , anatomy , surgery , biology , ecology
Background. Cordylobia anthropophaga (Blanchard) is a nonhematophagous dipteron belonging to the Calliphoridae family. It produces a mylasis called “tumbu fly” or “ver de Cayor” or “mango fly” or “skin maggot fly.” Case Reports . We describe two women, 24 and 23 years of age, affected by cutaneous myiasis caused by the larva of Cordylobia anthropophaga . In both cases the myiasis was contracted in Senegal and was characterized by a single lesion localized to the flank and the thigh respectively. From each of these lesions a single larva was extracted. Discussion . This myiasis represents a typical example of tropical disease that In the past was unknown to Western dermatologists.