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JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 114-116Publisher
J INFECTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.11560
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Furuncular myiasis; Tumbu fly; Cordylobia anthropophaga; Kenya; traveler
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Myiasis has been defined as the infestation of organs and/or tissues with dipterous larvae. They are especially widespread in tropical and subtropical areas. Cutaneous myiasis is its most frequent clinical presentation. This report presents a case of furuncular myiasis caused by the larva of Cordylobia anthropophaga in a 22-year-old girl living in Bergamo, Northern Italy, who returned from Kenya (Watamu) with a big, painful furuncle in her right gluteus. The patient accidentally removed the larva from a large pimple and took it to the infectious disease ambulatory clinic at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo. In the Microbiology and Virology Department of the same hospital, a larva of C. anthropophaga was identified and the diagnosis of myiasis was confirmed.
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