Infection by bucconasopharingeal myiasis: on the purpose of a case

Abstract

The myiasis is the infection of vertebrate animals and humans with insects' larvae that, during certain period of time, feed on the living and death tissues, body fluids or the foods eaten by the host. The buccal myiasis is a rare condition that is not frequently reported in our settings. We describe it associated to factors like poor oral hygiene, low socioeconomical level, alcoholism and destitution. We present the case of a male, white patient, aged 83 years old, with antecedents of ischemic heart disease and arterial hypertension, who, after an incidental lost in the woods, had to sleep outdoors without any protections, during three days and to drink stagnant water. He arrived at the emergency unit of the University Clinico-Surgical Hospital Comandante Faustino Perez, in Matanzas, with clinical features of dyspnea, lingual and palatal lesions, and also bloody expectoration with plentiful larvae. We decided to carry up a surgery to clean mechanically the lesions he had.