Cutaneous myiasis
Potasman, I.; Raz, R.
Harefuah 121(9): 307-309
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-7768 PMID: 1800280 Document Number: 380208
Modern air travel facilitates the importation of tropical diseases. We saw a 24-year-old man who returned from South America with cutaneous myiasis caused by larvae of the human botfly Dermatobia hominis. The larvae were expressed by pressure from 2 lesions, on the neck and the loin, and the pockets were disinfected with alcohol. They closed and healed completely with a day.