ABSTRACT
In September 1998, a case of nosocomial cutaneous myiasis caused by Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) in a 77-year-old male was found. The patient had been receiving partial maxillectomy due to the presence of malignant tumor on premaxilla. This is the first verified case involving Lucilia sericata in Taegu, Korea. In the present paper, the salient morphological features of the third instar larvae involved have been studied.
Subject(s)
Aged , Animals , Humans , Male , Cross Infection/parasitology , Diptera/ultrastructure , Face , Larva/ultrastructure , Microscopy, Electron, Scanning , Myiasis/parasitology , Skin Diseases, Parasitic/parasitology , Surgical Wound Infection/parasitologyABSTRACT
A case of subcutaneous gnathostomiasis in which subsequently a gnathostome larva crept out through a surgical wound in a 22-year-old Thai male is described. This case disclosed that although a worm may creep out of the body through certain natural passages as well as the skin, spontaneous exit via a surgical wound is a possibility. Based on the morphology and number of the head-bulb hooklets and cuticular spines by light and electron microscopy and gnathostome was confirmed as a third stage larva of gnathos toma spinigerum.