Myiasis by Cordylobia anthropophaga and C. rodhaini (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Polish travelers to Africa with new molecular data

Beata Biernat; Paweł Gładysz; Anna Kuna; Małgorzata Sulima; Martyna Bykowska-Tumasz; Elżbieta Sontag

doi:10.1093/jme/tjaf006

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25 January 2025 Myiasis by Cordylobia anthropophaga and C. rodhaini (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Polish travelers to Africa with new molecular data

Beata Biernat, Paweł Gładysz, Anna Kuna, Małgorzata Sulima, Martyna Bykowska-Tumasz, Elżbieta Sontag

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J. of Medical Entomology, 62(2):471-474 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf006

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Myiasis is a parasitic infestation of soft vertebrate tissues by larval stages of Diptera. We briefly described the lesion-causing genus Cordylobia Grünberg (Diptera: Calliphoridae).Three Polish travelers to Uganda, Gambia, and Senegal returned with furuncular myiasis. To identify the third-instar larvae removed from their skin, we examined the morphological features of the 3 specimens and sequenced a 5' barcoding fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (COI-5P). One larva was identified as C. rodhaini Gedoelst, and 2 larvae were identified as C. anthropophaga (Blanchard). We were the first to submit the COI-5P of C. rodhaini to GenBank and the Barcode of Life Database.This is the first record of the importation of C. anthropophaga and the second record of the importation of C. rodhaini to Poland.

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Beata Biernat, Paweł Gładysz, Anna Kuna, Małgorzata Sulima, Martyna Bykowska-Tumasz, and Elżbieta Sontag "Myiasis by Cordylobia anthropophaga and C. rodhaini (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Polish travelers to Africa with new molecular data," Journal of Medical Entomology 62(2), 471-474, (25 January 2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf006

Received: 13 September 2024; Accepted: 15 January 2025; Published: 25 January 2025

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