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.
Department of Medical Microbiology, District General Hospital, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
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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