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Incidence of multiple myiases in breasts of rural women and oral infection in infants from the human warble fly larvae in the humid Tropic‐Niger Delta
Author(s) -
Ogbalu Ogugua K.,
Achufusi TedGeorge Ody,
Adibe Chika
Publication year - 2006
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.1365-4632.2006.02983.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , niger delta , larva , myiasis , rural area , pediatrics , veterinary medicine , environmental health , dermatology , delta , pathology , ecology , biology , physics , aerospace engineering , optics , engineering
Twenty‐eight rural women of the Niger Delta were infected with the human warble fly (Tumbu fly) larva, Cordylobia anthropophaga , and of the women examined, 22 (78.5%) were nursing‐mothers. Among the percentage of women with cutaneous myiasis, 20 had multiple myiases in their breasts. Larvae were also extracted from the upper and lower lips of breast‐fed infants. A positive correlation was drawn between the incidence of breast and oral myiases.