Urinary Canthariasis Due to Tenebrio molitor Larva in a Ten-Year-Old Boy

Mohammad Hassan Aelami; Alireza Khooei; Hamidreza Ghorbani; Farrokh Seilanian-Toosi; Elham Poustchi; Bibi Razieh Hosseini-Farash; Elham Moghaddas

doi:10.18502/jad.v13i4.2239

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases (Aug 2019)

Urinary Canthariasis Due to Tenebrio molitor Larva in a Ten-Year-Old Boy

Mohammad Hassan Aelami,
Alireza Khooei,
Hamidreza Ghorbani,
Farrokh Seilanian-Toosi,
Elham Poustchi,
Bibi Razieh Hosseini-Farash,
Elham Moghaddas

Affiliations

Mohammad Hassan Aelami: Department of Pediatrics and Hand Hygiene and Infection Control Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Alireza Khooei: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Hamidreza Ghorbani: Kidney Transplantation Complications Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Farrokh Seilanian-Toosi: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Elham Poustchi: Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Bibi Razieh Hosseini-Farash: Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Mashhad, Iran
Elham Moghaddas: Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/jad.v13i4.2239
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 4

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Canthariasis is a human disease caused by infestation of beetle larvae. We report here an unusual cause of urogenital infection due to Tenebrio molitor in a 10-year-old boy suffering from severe and intermittent suprapubic pain from Nehbandan City, Northeastern Iran in 2018. After 9 months, three larvae were excreted. Keratinization of bladder wall was observed in histopathology. All laboratory evaluations were normal except for presence of microscopic hematuria. This report implicated that T. molitor could infest bladder accidentally and cause canthariasis and clinical symptoms that may lead to severe pain and bladder inflammation and hyperemia.

Canthariasis; Bladder; Human; Child

Published in Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases

ISSN: 2322-1984 (Print); 2322-2271 (Online)
Publisher: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Country of publisher: Iran, Islamic Republic of
LCC subjects: Medicine: Pathology
Website: http://jad.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jad

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