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A Severe Case of Cutaneous Myiasis in São Gonçalo, Brazil, and a Simple Technique to Extract New World Screw-Worm Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

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This work describes a severe case of myiasis by Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) in a 59-year-old patient living in an urban area of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. The patient had an open wound on the right shoulder parasitized by 287 larvae. In order to remove the larvae, the wound was washed with NaCl and solid vaseline was applied onto the wound and covered with gauze and adhesive tape. After 90 min, the larvae were killed by asphyxiation and were removed using sterile forceps and NaCl. This procedure left the wound completely clean.

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Acknowledgments

To the patient, for his participation in this study, by signing a term of accordance for the divulgation of data and so complying with the existing code of ethics and to David Graham Straker for the English revision.

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  1. Instituto de Biologia, Univ Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil

    José Antonio Batista-da-Silva & G. E. M. Borja

  2. Lab de Transmissores de Leishmanioses (Setor de Entomologia Médica e Forense), do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

    José Antonio Batista-da-Silva & M. M. C. Queiroz

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Batista-da-Silva, J.A., Borja, G.E.M. & Queiroz, M.M.C. A Severe Case of Cutaneous Myiasis in São Gonçalo, Brazil, and a Simple Technique to Extract New World Screw-Worm Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Neotrop Entomol 41, 341–342 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-012-0038-8

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