Internal human myiasis
Rawlins, S.C.; Barnett, D.B.
West Indian Medical Journal 32(3): 184-186
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-3144 PMID: 6636724 Document Number: 219629
Data are presented [from Jamaica] on a case of internal myiasis which occurred in hospital. A patient, suffering from a cerebrovascular accident and presumed endometrial carcinoma with an offensive, purulent, copious blood-stained vaginal discharge, developed tachypnoea. A nasopharyngeal aspirate produced 40 fully developed screwworm-Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel)-larvae. The attraction of the gravid adult female fly to such a host and the significance of such cases are discussed.AS/W.N. Beesley.