A Case of Traumatic Myiasis Caused by Wohlfahrtia magnifica in a Dog

Abstract

A 6-months-old female stray dog with tissue loss was brought to a private veterinary clinic. As a result of the examination of the dog, a 10 cm-wide wound with tissue loss was observed in the neck region. A large number of live fly larvae were detected from the wound. Larvae were carefully taken into petri dishes and kept in 70% ethyl alcohol. The collected larvae were cleared in 10% KOH solution. Species identifications were made in the microscopic examination of the larvae in the parasitology laboratory, according to the morphological features of the anterior and posterior stigma and the cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton. Larvae were identified as II and III instar larvae of Wohlfahrtia magnifica. A total of 65 live larvae were collected, 57 of which were L3 and 8 were L2.