Myiasis with Dermatobia hominis in a Sicilian traveller returning from Peru

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2007 May;5(3):196-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.09.007. Epub 2006 Nov 13.

Abstract

We report a case of a bot fly infestation of the scalp. A 45-year-old man after returning to Sicily noted a small white "worm" erupting from the upper lesion. Physical examination revealed a superficial furuncular lesion with central pores with sero-sanguineous discharge. The foreign body identified was diagnosed as the larva of the human bot fly, Dermatobia hominis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diptera*
  • Humans
  • Larva
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myiasis / diagnosis*
  • Myiasis / parasitology
  • Myiasis / pathology
  • Peru
  • Scalp / pathology
  • Sicily
  • Travel*