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Hospital-Acquired Myiasis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jay A. Jacobson ,
Robert L. Kolts ,
Marlyn Conti  and
John P. Burke
Jay A. Jacobson*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, LDS Hospital, andUniversity of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Robert L. Kolts
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, LDS Hospital, andUniversity of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Marlyn Conti
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, LDS Hospital, andUniversity of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
John P. Burke
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, LDS Hospital, andUniversity of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
*
LDS Hospital, 325 Eighth Ave., Salt Lake City, UT 84143
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Abstract

In three years we encountered two patients with hospital-acquired myiasis, a rarely reported nosocomial problem. Both patients were elderly and had lengthy thoracic surgery in August in the same operating room. Larvae removed from the nares of one patient and from the chest incision of the other were of the same species, Phaenicia serricata. There was no evidence of tissue destruction or invasion in either case. Investigation revealed several factors that contributed to the presence of flies in the operating room. After a presumed environmental access site was closed and insecticide spraying was augmented, no additional cases occurred. This experience illustrates an unusual problem that may confront those responsible for infection control programs.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , October 1980 , pp. 319 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1980

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