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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Research Letter

Pin-Site Myiasis Caused by Screwworm Fly in Nonhealed Wound, Colombia

Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez1, Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina1, Juan Sebastián Prado-Ojeda, Hugo Hernández-Prado, Mauricio Figueroa, Pedro N. Causil-Morales, Keirim Pérez-Reyes, Leidy A. Palechor-Ocampo, and Alfonso J. Rodríguez-MoralesComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Colombia; Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia (W.E. Villamil-Gómez, J.S. Prado-Ojeda. P.N. Causil-Morales); Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia (J.A. Cardona-Ospina, L.A. Palechor-Ocampo, A.J. Rodríguez-Morales); Clínica Santa María, Sincelejo (H. Hernández-Prado, M. Figueroa, K. Pérez-Reyes); Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo/UNIFRANZ, Cochabamba, Bolivia (A.J. Rodríguez-Morales

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Pin-site myiasis in a 77-year-old man 12 years after tibial osteosynthesis, Colombia. A) Open wound in the man’s left leg, showing multiple insect larvae. B, C) Cochliomyia hominivorax screwworm fly larvae extracted from the wound. Arrow 1 indicates the spinose bands; note the spines arranged in 4 rows that separate each segment. Arrow 2 indicates its mouthhooks. Scale bars indicate 2 mm (B) and 1 mm (C).

Figure. Pin-site myiasis in a 77-year-old man 12 years after tibial osteosynthesis, Colombia. A) Open wound in the man’s left leg, showing multiple insect larvae. B, C) Cochliomyia hominivorax screwworm fly larvae extracted from the wound. Arrow 1 indicates the spinose bands; note the spines arranged in 4 rows that separate each segment. Arrow 2 indicates its mouthhooks. Scale bars indicate 2 mm (B) and 1 mm (C).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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