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Oral myiasis by screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax
R S Gomez1, P F Perdigão, F J G S Pimenta
1Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte-MG 31270901, Brazil.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|April 16, 2003
Abstract:
We report a rare case of periodontal myiasis by New World screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax, an obligatory larval parasite, in a 66-year-old woman. The myiasis occurred in the anterior upper jaw associated with a pre-existent generalised periodontitis. About 40 larvae were removed from the lesion. One week later the periodontal tissues were healing normally and the patient was referred to a periodontist. As all of the larvae were in the last stage, they were probably deposited 5-7 days before.