PMID: 3751213Jul 1, 1986Paper

A case of skin myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis

Zeitschrift für Hautkrankheiten
C BauerD Lämmer

Abstract

A case of erysipelas-like symptoms in a 26-year-old female student of medicine having returned from Nicaragua to Germany is reported. On the removal of the scurf covering the supposed entrance of the erysipelas, a larva of Dermatobia hominis, the human bot fly, was extracted from the head skin, and the inflammation completely disappeared within a short period of time.

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