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1. Myiasis of facial wounds by Cochliomyia hominivorax sustained in a natural disaster in Haiti.

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Lindsay R, Stancil J, and Ray JM

Subjects
Adolescent, Child, Facial Injuries complications, Female, Haiti, Humans, Male, Pseudomonas Infections complications, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Screw Worm Infection therapy, Wound Infection complications, Disasters, Earthquakes, Facial Injuries parasitology, Lacerations parasitology, Screw Worm Infection complications, Wound Infection therapy
Published
2010
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2. [Cutaneous myiasis by Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) (Diptera Calliphoridae) in Hospital Universidad del Norte, Soledad, Atlántico].

Author

de la Ossa N, Castro LE, Visbal L, Santos AM, Díaz E, and Romero-Vivas CM

Subjects
Abscess drug therapy, Abscess etiology, Analgesics therapeutic use, Animals, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Antiparasitic Agents therapeutic use, Child, Child Abuse, Colombia, Combined Modality Therapy, Debridement, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Hospitals, University, Humans, Ivermectin therapeutic use, Lacerations microbiology, Lacerations parasitology, Lice Infestations complications, Lice Infestations drug therapy, Myiasis complications, Myiasis drug therapy, Myiasis surgery, Scalp injuries, Skin Diseases, Bacterial drug therapy, Skin Diseases, Bacterial etiology, Species Specificity, Diptera, Myiasis parasitology, Scalp parasitology
Abstract

Human myiasis is the parasitism of human tissues by fly larvae. Diagnoses are based on clinical pattern of tissue damage and presence of insect stages. Herein, a case myiasis is described in a seven-year-old female child. She presented with fever associated with abscessed scalp lesions containing exposed larvae. Severe pediculosis was also observed. The patient was hospitalized and treated with clindamycin, gentamicin (for bacterial secondary infections) and ivermectin (treatment for lice) after which the patient showed clinical improvement and was discharged four days later. Since human myiasis can be caused by a number of different species, larvae were collected from the patient and identified as those of Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Because other cases of coinfestation of flies and lice are on record, health workers are to be alerted about the possible pediculosis-myasis risk.

Published
2009

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