Wound Myiasis Caused by Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Ardabil Province, Northwest of Iran | Punjab University Journal of Zoology 2021

Author(s)

Eslam Moradi-Asl Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences,Ardabil,Iran

Behnam Mohammadi Ghalehbin Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences,Ardabil,Iran

Kamran Akbarzadeh Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Borne Disease, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,Tehran,Iran

Jafar Mohammad-Shahi Department of Infection Disease, School of medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences,Ardabil,Iran

Hajar Afshin Department of Infection Disease, School of medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences,Ardabil,Iran

Abstract

| Myiasis were occurs in tropical regions and rural areas where animal contact is common. Wound myiasis occurs when fly larvae infect open wounds. We describe an old male with wound myiasis by agent of Lucilia cuprina, who had a history of diabetes and also blind that reefed to hospital in 13 September and was admitted to date 18 September 2019.Larvea extracted manually from thumb finger of left foot and sent to Medical Entomology Laboratory of the School of Public Health, Ardabil University of medical Sciences for identification. This case is a first time was reported from Ardabil province, northwest of Iran and the Diabetics, Blindness and Physical inability to protect the wound were the most important factors in wound myiasis in this report.

Publication Details

Page(s) 21-23

DOI 10.17582/journal.pujz/2021.36.1.21.23

Published Journal: Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Year: 2021

Keywords

Iran Wounds Lucilia cuprina Ardabi Myiasis

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