Incidence of multiple myiases in breasts of rural women and oral infection in infants from the human warble fly larvae in the humid Tropic-Niger Delta.
Twenty-eight rural women of the Niger Delta were infected with the human warble fly (Tumbu fly) larva, Cordylobia anthropophaga, and of the women examined, 22 (78.5%) were nursing-mothers. Among the percentage of women with cutaneous myiasis, 20 had multiple myiases in their breasts. Larvae were also extracted from the upper and lower lips of breast-fed infants. A positive correlation was drawn between the incidence of breast and oral myiases.
Ogbalu
Ogugua K
OK
Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. ogbaluo@yahoo.com
Achufusi
Ted-George Ody
TG
Adibe
Chika
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D004175:Diptera / Q000254:growth & development*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D007814:Larva / Q000254:growth & development; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D009198:Myiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000635:transmission; D009548:Niger / Q000453:epidemiology; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data