Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga) myiasis in a quarantined dog in England
Fox, M.T.; Jacobs, D.E.; Hall, M.J.; Bennett, M.P.
Veterinary Record 130(5): 100-101
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4900 PMID: 1557870 Document Number: 389083
A 5-year-old male Poodle cross Maltese terrier was imported from Botswana and admitted into quarantine kennels. The dog was examined the next day and found to have 10 subcutaneous boil-like swellings on depended parts of the body. The lesions were up to 2 cm in diameter with small 1 to 2 mm apertures in the centre. The animal showed no signs of discomfort until a single dipteran larva measuring approximately 1 cm by 0.4 cm was expressed easily from each swelling. The larvae were identified as 3rd instar larvae of C. anthropophaga. The dog was treated with amoxycillin and clavulinic acid as a precautionary measure against secondary bacterial infection; it was also sprayed with dichlorvos and fenitrothion and given 500 mg nitroscanate which were both routine treatments for imported dogs. No further boil-like swellings appeared. This appears to be the first case of tumbu fly myiasis in a dog in Britain.