Furuncular and cavitary myiasis.

Abstract

Furuncular myiasis in a 6-years-old boy from the Amazon region showing a clinical lesion with central air pore (A)—a single larva was identified as D. hominis 3rd instar (B). The child was treated with ivermectin (400 μg/kg once). After 48 h, a dead larva was extracted manually. More than 100 C. hominivorax 3rd instar larvae (C) manually extracted from the right eyeball (D) of a 91 year-old indigent indigenous Kichwa woman. Infestation occurred in the Andes region at 2,418 m, 80 km from Quito, the capital.</p