Human wound myiasis caused by Phormia regina and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis in Minia Governorate, Egypt

Myiasis is the parasitic infestation of human by the larvae (maggots) of dipterous fly that grow within the host while feeding on its tissue. Cutaneous myiasis is the most considerably encountered clinical form. Moreover, wound (traumatic) myiasis is the main clinical manifestation of cutaneous myia...

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Published in:Parasitology research (1987) 2015-10, Vol.114 (10), p.3703-3709
Main Authors: Abdel-Hafeez, Ekhlas H., Mohamed, Rabie M., Belal, Usama S., Atiya, Ahmed M., Takamoto, Masaya, Aosai, Fumie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Animals
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Causes of
Diptera
Diptera - classification
Egypt - epidemiology
Female
Health aspects
Host-parasite relationships
Humans
Identification and classification
Immunology
Larva - classification
Larval development
Male
Medical Microbiology
Microbiology
Middle Aged
Myiasis
Myiasis - complications
Myiasis - epidemiology
Myiasis - parasitology
Original Paper
Risk Factors
Sarcophagidae - growth & development
Wounds and Injuries - complications
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Summary:Myiasis is the parasitic infestation of human by the larvae (maggots) of dipterous fly that grow within the host while feeding on its tissue. Cutaneous myiasis is the most considerably encountered clinical form. Moreover, wound (traumatic) myiasis is the main clinical manifestation of cutaneous myiasis. In this research, we aimed to study the type of infesting larvae that are responsible for wound myiasis in the patients in Minia city, Egypt. Three cases of wound myiasis have been noticed among 280 patients with wounds at different parts of bodies. Two of them were diabetic patients. The third one had a history of hypertension with right side hemiplegia 2 years ago. All of them were elderly. The larvae removed from cases 1 and 3 were identified macroscopically and microscopically as the third-stage larvae of Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis. The larvae removed from case 2 were the third-stage larvae of Phormia regina, which is very rare worldwide. In addition to the open and obsolete wound, diabetes mellitus and low socio-economic circumstances were shown to be attributed as important predisposing risk factors that led to the occurrence of myiasis in these patients.
ISSN:0932-0113
1432-1955
DOI:10.1007/s00436-015-4599-4