The term myiasis (female name) (or myiasis) originates from the Greek words ".
These are infections under development in rich countries among tourists, hunters, naturalists and prospectors returning from tropical countries. Some countries (Australia) impose a quarantine upon detecting an flystrike border, to limit the risk of invasion by a parasite of humans or livestock.
Some local cases and "natural" can occur in non-tropical, but are rare in humans.
There are generally. These larvae attack only areas of the skin but can dig up a.
These infestations are not always painful and seems to secrete an antibiotic that makes rare infections as the larva is living under the skin. Secondary bacterial infections painful due to staphylococci, streptococci, Clostridium, etc.. are nevertheless still a risk, especially if extraction caused, made under poor hygienic condition. Otherwise the "wound" is normally bacteriologically sterile. The "wound" of serous fluids and excretes however faecal residues (which could attract other insects may harbor pests.
The adult female has the appearance of a blue-gray fly about 1.5. The body's immune response does not hunt, but marks the location of a reddish papule, a nodule and then drilled in its center to allow the larva to breathe. With this opening, maintained by the larva, the larva when it can be quite big, remove it by carefully pulling the tweezers or by using a special syringe sucking the venom (eg larvae Dermatobia hominis in humans).
Treatment. It passes through the blubber layer where the trap then (bacon is sometimes replaced by a thick cotton impregnated with Vaseline or biafine). Some use a piece of tape (scotch in broadband). These methods based on asphyxia often allow the extraction of parasitic spontaneous or facilitated its extraction to the tweezers. In some cases bacterial infection follows. A surgical scrub is required if the larva is incompletely extracted. The specially designed syringe to suck the venom seem equally effective at the early phase of infection and at all stages, avoiding surgery and reducing a priori the risk of infection. The surgical procedure is to be made is done under local anesthesia and should be followed by a thorough disinfection.
Preventive control. Screwworm is known for making crazy wild animals in their devouring the brain, after investing the nasal sinuses or horns. Bufonivora Lucilia larvae eat some of the inside of the head of the toad Bufo bufo, from the nostrils, leaving him alive and relatively amorphous (he tries simply episodically few gestures of the front legs as if trying to get rid larvae).
There are also humans and animal myiasis of luminal colonizing a body through natural body openings.
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