Myiasis

Myiasis is an animal or human disease caused by parasitic dipterous fly larvae feeding on the host's necrotic or living tissue. Colloquialisms for Myiasis include "fly-strike" and "fly-blown".Blowfly strike, known as myiasis, is a common disease in sheep, especially in areas where there are hot and wet conditions. The female flies lay their eggs on the sheep in damp, protected areas soiled with urine and faeces, mainly on the sheep's breech . It takes approximately 8 hours to a day for the eggs to hatch, depending on the conditions. This results in sores as the larvae lacerate the skin and this is the primary reason for the early removal of lambs' tails. The larvae then tunnel into the host's tissue causing irritating lesions. After about the second day bacterial infection occurs and if left untreated causes toxemia or septicemia. This leads to anorexia and weakness and if untreated will lead to death. Blowfly strike accounts for over $170 million a year in losses in the Australian sheep industry and so prevention measures such as mulesing are practiced. Infestation of vulvar area with larvae and maggots is called Vulvar Myiasis.German entomologist Fritz Zumpt describes myiasis as "the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae, which at least for a period, feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances, or ingested food." (From the Wikpedia article Myiasis.)

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Recent Publications on Myiasis:
[Maggots in the wound, debridement, disinfection and wound healing] An 87-year-old man had a longstanding untreated large basosquamous...	11th November, 2009	Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, afd. Plastische Chirurgie, 's-Hertogenbosch, The	Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2009;153:A624.
Imported tropical diseases. Imported tropical diseases are among the top three leading causes for...	6th November, 2009	Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL	Dermatol Ther. 2009 Nov-Dec;22(6):538-49. DOI Direct Link
Cutaneous ectoparasites. Parasites inhabit many places in the world. Some of these can inhabit the...	6th November, 2009	Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45202, USA.	Dermatol Ther. 2009 Nov-Dec;22(6):503-17. DOI Direct Link
Cutaneous myiasis due to Dermatobia hominis (the human botfly) in a New Zealand traveller returned from South America. We report a case of botfly myiasis presenting as an ankle cellulitis in a...	5th November, 2009		N Z Med J. 2009 Sep 11;122(1302):95-9.
Otomyiasis by Wohlfahrtia magnifica. Myiasis has been defined as the infestation of tissue with dipterous...	4th November, 2009	From the Departments of *Otorhinolaryngology and daggerMicrobiology and	J Craniofac Surg. 2009 Oct 30. DOI Direct Link
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Myiasis Patents:
US Patent No.	Title
6875748	Compositions and methods for in vivo delivery of polynucleotide-based therapeutics
7323477	7-((1H-imidazol-4-yl)methyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline
7345077	4-(substituted cycloalkylmethyl) imidazole-2-thiones, 4-(substituted cycloalkenylmethyl) imidazole-2-thiones, 4- (substituted cycloalkylmethyl) imidazol-2-ones and 4- (substituted cycloalkenylmethyl) imidazol-2-ones and related compounds
7359748	Apparatus for total immersion photography
7375122	Compounds useful as pesticides
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