Case of the month: Cutaneous myiasis in a returning traveller from the Algarve: first report of tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga, acquired in Portugal.
A 61 year old woman returning to the UK from the Algarve and complaining of boil-like lesions was found to have cutaneous myiasis caused by tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga. This is apparently the first report of acquisition of this form of myiasis in Portugal.
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Department of Medical Microbiology, District General Hospital, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
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Athulathmuda
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva; D008875:Middle Aged; D009198:Myiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011174:Portugal; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014195:Travel