Cutaneous myiasis caused by tumbu fly larvae, Cordylobia anthropophaga in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

Seven cases of human cutaneous myiasis caused by maggots of the tumbu fly, Cordylobia anthropophaga are reported from Asir region, southwestern Saudi Arabia. Boil-like swellings infested with individual fly larvae, varied from one to four and occurred in both unprotected and usually protected areas of the skin. Twenty five fly maggots were retrieved from separate furunculoid lesions on the body surface of a massive case of a 4-year old boy. The present observations confirm that this calliphorine species is not restricted to tropical Africa.