Patient with tracheostomy parasitized in hospital by larvae of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax
1Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Rod. BR 465, Km 7, Seropédica (RJ), Brazil
2Laboratório de Transmissores de Leishmanioses (Setor de Entomologia Médica e Forense) do Instituto Oswaldo
Cruz - IOC/FIOCRUZ, RJ, Brazil
Abstract
Myiasis is the infestation of living vertebrates by fly larvae that feed for at least part of their development on the host’s dead or living tissues, body substances, or ingested food. The occurrences of traumatic myiasis in humans and animals in urban and rural environments represent serious economic and public health concerns. This study reports a 49-year-old tracheostomized man undergoing chemotherapy treatment who was parasitized in the hospital in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by larvae of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the thoracic cavity.
Keywords: Calliphoridae, ivermectin, myiasis, public health
Correspondence:
a zeize@uol.com.br,
b gemoya@ufrrj.br,
c mmcqueiroz@uol.com.br, *Corresponding author
Editor: Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena was Editor of this paper.
Received: 10 February 2011 | Accepted: 5 July 2011 | Published: 30 November 2011
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 11, Number 163
Batista-da-Silva JA, Borja GEM, Queiroz MMC. 2011. Patient with tracheostomy parasitized in hospital by larvae of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax. Journal of Insect Science 11:163 available online: insectscience.org/11.163
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