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Travel Med Infect Dis · May 2007
Case ReportsCase report: cutaneous myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly.
- Kanishka W Garvin and Virtaj Singh.
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, P-100 Volker Hall, 1530 3rd Ave South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0019, USA. kwgarvin@uasom.uab.edu
- Travel Med Infect Dis. 2007 May 1;5(3):199-201.
AbstractCutaneous myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly, involves the infestation of human tissue with fly larvae, and is common in Central and South America. We report a case of a 57-year-old man with cutaneous myiasis imported into the US from Belize. The epidemiology, biological life cycle, clinical presentation, and various methods of larval extraction, including incision and drainage, are discussed.
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