TY - JOUR
T1 - Imported and autochthonous cases of myiasis caused by dermatobia hominis
T2 - Taxonomic identification using the internal transcribed spacer region
AU - Toussaint-Caire, Sonia
AU - Woroszylski-Yoselevitz, Alejandro
AU - Vega-Memije, Maria Elisa
AU - Villalobos, Guiehdani
AU - Rivas, Nancy
AU - Alejandre-Aguilar, Ricardo
AU - Romero-Valdovinos, Mirza
AU - Maravilla, Pablo
AU - Martinez-Hernandez, Fernando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Dermatobia hominis is a fly endemic to and widely distributed throughout the Americas; it is found from the southern regions of Mexico to Argentina. However, because of widespread travel, myiasis has become common in countries where neither the disease nor the species that cause this infection are endemic. Central Mexico, for instance, is not a region where myiasis is endemic. We, thus, describe three cases of D. hominis myiasis: two autochthonous cases from the southern part of Mexico and one imported from Costa Rica. In addition, morphological and genetic identification was performed on the maggots extracted from the patients.
AB - Dermatobia hominis is a fly endemic to and widely distributed throughout the Americas; it is found from the southern regions of Mexico to Argentina. However, because of widespread travel, myiasis has become common in countries where neither the disease nor the species that cause this infection are endemic. Central Mexico, for instance, is not a region where myiasis is endemic. We, thus, describe three cases of D. hominis myiasis: two autochthonous cases from the southern part of Mexico and one imported from Costa Rica. In addition, morphological and genetic identification was performed on the maggots extracted from the patients.
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U2 - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0262
DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0262
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 30062994
SN - 0002-9637
VL - 99
SP - 940
EP - 944
JO - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - 4
ER -