• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.650-655
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• 2002

저자들은 우리나라에서 처음으로 폐렴환자에서 병발된 호흡기계에 발생한 내부승저증 예를 경험하였기에 기생충학적 기술과 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.151-154
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• 1996

저자 등은 1987넌에 인공 관막 치환수술을 받고 심방 내 혈전 형성을 예방하기 위하여 항응호제를 계속적으로 복용하여 오던 71세 남자가 우측 안면 및 상, 하지 운동 마비와 실어증을 주소로 1994년(9원 28일) 성남 인하병원에 입원하게 되었고 입원 11일째부터 사망하기까지 특수 유통식 공금을 위하여 위장 내로 투입한 비강 영양 튜우브(nasogastrictube)를 통하여 수 마리의 파리 유충(maggot)이 역류되어 나왔고, 구강 내에서도 총 45마리의 구더기가 발견된 증례를 경험하였다 이 파리 유충은 병균 11.5 mm 길이로서 걸정파리과(Calliphoridae) 금파리속(Lucllia)의 1종이었으며 위. 장관계에 병소를 갖고 있었음이 추정되었다. 본 내부 승저증(internal myiasis) 증례는 우리 나라에서 처음 보고되는 것이다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.119-123
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• 2013

We report here a case of oral myiasis in the Republic of Korea. The patient was a 37-year-old man with a 30-year history of Becker's muscular dystrophy. He was intubated due to dyspnea 8 days prior to admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). A few hours after the ICU admission, 43 fly larvae were found during suction of the oral cavity. All maggots were identified as the third instars of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) by morphology. We discussed on the characteristics of myiasis acquired in Korea, including the infection risk and predisposing factors.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.327-331
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• 2017

A fly larva was recovered from a boil-like lesion on the left leg of a 33-year-old male on 21 November 2016. He has worked in an endemic area of myiasis, Uganda, for 8 months and returned to Korea on 11 November 2016. The larva was identified as Cordylobia anthropophaga by morphological features, including the body shape, size, anterior end, posterior spiracles, and pattern of spines on the body. Subsequent 28S rRNA gene sequencing showed 99.9% similarity (916/917 bp) with the partial 28S rRNA gene of C. anthropophaga. This is the first imported case of furuncular myiasis caused by C. anthropophaga in a Korean overseas traveler.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.667-671
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• 2016

Myiasis is a relatively common infection of animals kept as pets, although only 1 case of canine myiasis has been described so far in the Republic of Korea. In the present study, we report an additional case of canine wound myiasis with identification of its causative agent, Lucilia sericata. An 8-year-old male Siberian husky dog was referred with anorexia, vomiting, and diarrhea to the Chungbuk National University Veterinary Medical Center, Cheongju-si (city), Chungcheongbuk-do (province), Korea in July 2013. Physical examination indicated the patient had a deep wound filled with a maggot swarm as a left gluteal lesion. A total of 216 maggots were removed by forceps, and the wounded area was sponged with gauzes and disinfected with 70% alcohol and a povidone-iodine solution. After daily care and suturing the wound, the patient was discharged at day 19 after admission. Recovered worms possessed morphological characteristics similar to those of L. sericata, namely, a sub-cylindrical body with 6-8 lobed anterior spiracles, round shaped with a button surrounded by a peritremal ring with no gaps, and similar distances between dorsal, median, and outer papillae of the 12th segment. Additionally, cox1 partial sequences (528 bp) obtained in the present study showed 100% identity with those of L. sericata (GenBank no. KT272854.1). L. sericata is indicated as a pathogen of myiasis infection not only in humans, but also in animals kept as pets in Korea.