Raro caso de miíases por Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera:Calliphoridae) e Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: Oestridae) em paciente humano / A rare case of myiases by Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae)and Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: Oestridae) in a human patient

RESUMO

Miíase é uma doença causada por larvas de dípteros que se alimentam de tecidos vivo ou necrosado de hospedeiros. Paciente ingresso em hospital público, em péssimo estado clínico geral, exibia três lesões na cabeça com miíases, das quais foram retiradas 518 larvas de C. hominivorax e duas de D. hominis. Após aretirada de larvas, o paciente foi submetido a enxerto de pele.

ABSTRACT

Myiasis is a disease caused by an infection due to invasion of tissues or cavities of the body by larvae of dipterans insects that feed on live or necrotic tissue of the hosts. A patient was admitted to a public hospital, with a very bad general clinic state, presenting three lesions in the head, from which 518 larvae of C. hominivorax and two larvae of D. hominis were removed. After the removal of the larvae, the patient was submitted to a skin graft.