Myiasis (overview) B87.9

Parasitism of fly maggots (-larvae) in the skin or in internal organs of humans (approx. 80 fly species are known as pathogens). A distinction is made between cutaneous and visceral myiasis. On the skin (Yusuf MA et l. (2019):

• External myiasis (wound myiasis)
• Myiasis linearis migrans
• Furunculoid myiasis.

Especially in the African tropics, aggressive fly species (tumbu fly) are found that develop in the sand and whose larvae bore into the skin (Myiasis linearis migrans).

In South and Central America, Dermatobia hominis of the botfly must be expected, which lives in warm and humid regions and infests grazing animals and, less frequently, humans, see below. Myiasis, furunculoid.

In Europe, external myiasis is more common, in which different fly species lay their eggs in open wounds.

1. Yusuf MA et l. (2019) Cutaneous myiasis in an elderly woman in Somaliland. Int J Womens Dermatol 5:187-189.