[A case of skin myiasis caused by Dermatobia hominis]. / Ein Fall von Hautmyiasis durch Dermatobia hominis.

A case of erysipelas-like symptoms in a 26-year-old female student of medicine having returned from Nicaragua to Germany is reported. On the removal of the scurf covering the supposed entrance of the erysipelas, a larva of Dermatobia hominis, the human bot fly, was extracted from the head skin, and the inflammation completely disappeared within a short period of time.