[A case of cutaneous myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis]

Parassitologia. 1998 Sep;40(3):335-7.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Due to increasing international travelling of European population, tropical parasitic diseases may be imported more frequently in temperate countries. We describe a subject who travelled in Brasil and returned to Italy with a subcutaneous nodule containing a phase-II Dermatobia hominis larva; such larva is reported with photographic documentation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brazil
  • Diptera*
  • Europe
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Myiasis / diagnosis*
  • Myiasis / surgery
  • Travel