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  • Title: Case of the month: Cutaneous myiasis in a returning traveller from the Algarve: first report of tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga, acquired in Portugal.
    Author: Curtis SJ, Edwards C, Athulathmuda C, Paul J.
    Journal: Emerg Med J; 2006 Mar; 23(3):236-7. PubMed ID: 16498169.
    Abstract:
    A 61 year old woman returning to the UK from the Algarve and complaining of boil-like lesions was found to have cutaneous myiasis caused by tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga. This is apparently the first report of acquisition of this form of myiasis in Portugal.
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