Ignatzschineria larvae bacteremia following lucilia sp. Myiasis in an irregular migrant: A case report

Abstract

Bacteremia induced by wound myiasis is uncommon and therefore rarely suspected by clinicians when treat-ing patients with neglected wounds. We present a case of Ignatzschineria larvae bacteremia as a complication of Lucilia sp. maggot wound myiasis in a young male migrant. This is the first reported human case of Ignatzschineria bacteremia in Slovenia and one of the 2 described in the literature where the fly larvae infesting the wounds of the patient with Ig-natzschineria bacteremia were not only suspected to be Lucilia sp. but also entomologically identified.