PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Louise Dunphy
AU  - Vikas Sood
TI  - <em>Dermatobia hominis</em> ‘the human botfly’ presenting as a scalp lesion
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2018-228310
DP  - 2019 Mar 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e228310
VI  - 12
IP  - 3
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/3/e228310.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/3/e228310.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2019 Mar 01; 12
AB  - Owing to increasing international travel, physicians will encounter more infectious diseases acquired overseas, which may be bacterial, fungal or parasitic in nature.1 Knowledge of the geographic distribution of specific diseases permits the formulation of a differential diagnosis in the context of clinical presentation. Parasitic infestations of the maxillofacial tissues can be caused by a host of different ectoparasites, for example, myiasis, a frequently misdiagnosed disease of tourists returning from exotic locations. For those natives and travellers who are subject to these ‘infestations’, the experience can be both alarming and very distressing.