Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2019)

Pin-Site Myiasis Caused by Screwworm Fly in Nonhealed Wound, Colombia

  • Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez,
  • Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina,
  • Juan Sebastián Prado-Ojeda,
  • Hugo Hernández-Prado,
  • Mauricio Figueroa,
  • Pedro N. Causil-Morales,
  • Keirim Pérez-Reyes,
  • Leidy A. Palechor-Ocampo,
  • Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2502.181053
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 2
pp. 379 – 380

Abstract

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Pin-site myiasis is an underreported complication of surgical interventions. We present a case of myiasis caused by the New World screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) in a pin site of a chronic nonhealed wound 12 years after the intervention. This infection apparently was the result of poor perfusion of the leg.

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