Myiasis is a pathogenic condition found in
live humans and animals caused by various
species of dipteran larvae (Zumpt, 1965).
The first human case of myiasis in
Malaysia was reported by Reid (1953) from
a great toe of a patient in Malacca. Later
Cheong et al. (1973) reported a cause of
intestinal myiasis. Since then myiasis cases
in Malaysia have been reported
sporadically. Generally, myiasis can be
classified according to the site of
infestation, as nasopharyngeal or nasal,
urogenital, cutaneous, intestinal (enteric),
aural (ear) myiasis (Oothuman & Jeffery
1984; Lee & Cheong, 1985; Lee & Young,
1991; Lee, & Yong, 1991; Lee et al., 1995;
Lee, 1996). Recently Roszalina & Rosalan
(2002) reported on two cases of oral
myiasis in cerebral palsy patients.
However, reports on human myiasis in
Malaysia is generally considered relatively
few, probably due to a lack of awareness
of the importance of flies in inducing
myiasis. We report here a case of
nasopharyngeal myiasis from a patient in
Malaysia for the first time.