Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly, or skin maggot fly, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage.[1] C. anthropophaga is found in the tropics of Africa and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region.[2]
Its specific epithet anthropophaga derives from the Greek word anthropophagos, “human eater”.
The mode of infection by the Cayor Worm. Doctors Rodhain and Bequaert conclude, from their observations in the Congo Free State, that Cordylobia anthropophaga lays its eggs on the ground. The larvae, known generally as Cayor Worms, crawl over the soil until they come in contact with a mammal, penetrate the skin and lie in the subcutaneous tissue, causing the formation of tumors. On reaching full growth, the larvae leave the host, fall to the ground, bury themselves and then pupate. This fly is said to be the most common cause of human or animal myiasis in tropical Africa, from Senegal to Natal. In the region of Lower Katanga where these investigations were made, dogs appeared to be the principal hosts, although Cordylobia larvae were found also in guinea-pigs, a monkey, and two humans. The larvae are always localized on those parts of the hosts which come in immediate contact with the soil.”
- — Ann. Soc. Entom. de Belgique, Iv, pp. 192–197, 1911) summary translation in Entomological News. 1911 Vol. xxii:467.
History of discovery
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The larvae of the tumbu fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga, were first described in Senegal in 1862, and Blanchard first described the adult and gave it its name in 1872. In 1903, Grünberg placed the tumbu fly in a new genus, Cordylobia.[3]
Life cycle
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Female tumbu flies deposit around 300 eggs in sandy soil, often contaminated with feces. The hatched larvae can remain viable in the soil for 9–15 days, when they need to find a host to continue developing.[4] If a larva finds a host, it penetrates the skin and takes 8–12 days developing through three larval stages before it reaches the prepupal stage. It then leaves the host, drops to the ground, buries itself, and pupates. It then becomes an adult fly able to reproduce and begin the cycle all over again.[5]
Clinical presentation in humans
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Successful penetrations in humans results in furuncular (boil-like) myiasis, typically on the backs of arms or about the waist, lower back, or buttocks.[6]
C. anthropophaga rarely causes severe problems, and mainly causes cutaneous myiasis. Geary et al. describe the presentation of cutaneous myiasis caused by the tumbu fly: “At the site of penetration, a red papule forms and gradually enlarges. At first the host may experience only intermittent, slight itching, but pain develops and increases in frequency and intensity as the lesions develop into a furuncle. The furuncle‘s aperture opens, permitting fluids containing blood and waste products of the maggot to drain.”[5]
Epidemiology
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The tumbu fly is endemic to the tropical regions of Africa, south of the Sahara. Myiasis caused by C. anthropophaga is the most common cause of myiasis in Africa, but can be seen worldwide because of air travel, as human movements carry infestation outside endemic areas.[7]
Public health and prevention strategies
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The fly commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry.[10] The eggs hatch in one to three days and the larvae (which can survive without a host for up to 15 days) then burrow into the skin when the clothes are worn.[1] A prevention method is to iron all clothes, including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.[11][12]
References
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- ^ Jump up to:a b Adisa, Charles Adeyinka; Augustus Mbanaso (February 2004). “Furuncular myiasis of the breast caused by the larvae of the Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)”. BMC Surgery. 4 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/1471-2482-4-5. PMC 394335. PMID 15113429.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Rice, Paul L.; Neva Gleason (January 1972). “Two cases of myiasis in the United States by the African tumbu fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga (Diptera, Calliphoridae)”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 21 (2): 62–5. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1972.21.62. PMID 5007189. Archived from the original on 2013-02-24. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Ockenhouse, Christian F.; Curt P. Samlaska; Paul M. Benson; Lyman W. Roberts; Arn Eliasson; Susan Malane; Mark D. Menich (February 1990). “Cutaneous myiasis caused by the African tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)”. Archives of Dermatology. 126 (2): 199–202. doi:10.1001/archderm.1990.01670260069013. PMID 2301958. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d Geary, Merilyn J.; Bernard J. Hudson; Richard C. Russell; Andrew Hardy (1999). “Exotic myiasis with Lund’s fly (Cordylobia rodhaini)”. Medical Journal of Australia. 171 (11–12): 654–5. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123838.x. PMID 10721359. S2CID 34209384. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Zijlma, Anouk. “About the putzi fly”. About.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c John, David; William Petri (2006). Markell and Voge’s Medical Parasitology (9th ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. p. 329. ISBN 0-7216-4793-6. OCLC 62475633.
- ^ Gordon Charles Cook (2009). Manson’s Tropical Diseases. Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 1587–. ISBN 978-1-4160-4470-3.
- ^ Sherman RA, Hall MJ, Thomas S (2000). “Medicinal maggots: an ancient remedy for some contemporary afflictions”. Annual Review of Entomology. 45 (1): 55–81. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.55. PMID 10761570.
- ^ “Tumbu fly infestation” (PDF). CDR Weekly Communicable Disease Report. 6 March 1992. ISSN 0144-3186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Adisa CA, Mbanaso A (2004). “‘Furuncular myiasis of the breast caused by the larvae of the Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)”. BMC Surgery. 4: 5. doi:10.1186/1471-2482-4-5. PMC 394335. PMID 15113429.
- ^ James AS, Stevenson J (March 1992). “Cutaneous myiasis due to Tumbu fly”. Archives of Emergency Medicine. 9 (1): 58–61. doi:10.1136/emj.9.1.58. PMC 1285829. PMID 1567531.
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