VPA 221: Veterinary Entomology and Acarology (1+1)

MYIASIS - INTRODUCTION

• Myia - (Greek word for fly)
• Hope 1940 coined it and it refers to animal disease due to fly larvae
• Zumpt (1965) defined myiasis as:
  • Infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with the larvae of dipteran fly which atleast for a certain period feed on the host’s dead or living tissues, liquid body substances or ingested food
  • In sheep it is referred to as “strike” or blow fly myiasis. Generally caused by larvae of Chrysomia, Lucilia, Phormia and Calliphora