Suspected asymptomatic alimentary tract myiasis due to Lucilia sericata (Diptera : Calliphoridae) occurred in a general hospital by commercially delivered lunch

Abstract

A nurse of a certain general hospital who had eaten a box lunch, it found numerous wriggling maggots beneath a slice of baked salmon. She immediately ceased ingestion of the salmon, but some of the food with maggots might have already been swallowed. But she did not complain of any abdominal symptoms and signs during the following several days. The collected larvae were identified as 2nd instar larvae of Lucilia sericata from their morphological characteristics.