Intestinal Myiasis Caused by Muscina Stabulans

The Bioefficacy of Essential Oils against the False Stable Fly, Muscina stabulans (Harris) (Diptera: Muscidae)

“…Even though M. stabulans is a species of forensic value, it acts as a mechanical disease vector and intestinal myiasis producing fly (Patitucci et al, 2010;Shivekar et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2019). Botanical extracts, including essential oils, are effective against the developmental stages of arthropod pests of medical and veterinary importance (Khater, 2012b(Khater, , 2014Khater & Geden, 2018Baz et al, 2021;2022a,b;Eltaly et al, 2023;Hegazy et al, 2022;Khater et al, , 20112013;2014;, 2023Abdel-Ghany et al, 2023;Nabil et al, 2023).…”

“…The stable fly, Muscina stabulans (Fallén 1817) (Diptera: Muscidae), is a cosmopolitan fly with a worldwide distribution and has medical and forensic importance in acting as a mechanical disease vector and intestinal myiasis producing fly (Shivekar et al, 2008;Patitucci et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2019). Larvae of M. stabulans develop on a variety of discrete and ephemeral food substrates, such as feces and carcasses.…”

An Unusual Cause of Rectal Bleeding: Intestinal Myiasis

“…Myiasis is a term used for the invasion of living human or vertebrate animal tissues by the larvae of various dipterous flies that, at least for a certain period, feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body substances, or ingested food (3)(4)(5). More than 50 fly species have been reported to cause myiasis in humans.…”

“…More than 50 fly species have been reported to cause myiasis in humans. Myiasis infestation can occur in some anatomical sites, including skin, eye, ear, nasopharynx, genitourinary tract, intestine, and in wounds (3,5). The severity of myiasis depends on the location of the infestation.…”

“…The patient was diagnosed as having intestinal myiasis. Even though no specific treatment is valid for the treatment of intestinal myiasis, purgatives, albendazole, and levamizole were reported to cure the disease in some patients (3,4). Therefore, we applied purgatives at first, but because the patient's complaints continued, albendazole 400 mg/day for 7 days was used.…”