Raafat T. Makhlof

First Record of Indigenous Furuncular Myiasis Due to Cordylobia anthropophaga in Unusual Ecologic Niche, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Amal M. Abdo Almatary, Raafat Y. Hassanein, Raafat T. Makhlof, Hanaa Y. Bakir & Amr M. Mohamed · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2016

Background: Cordylobia anthropophaga, one of the known furuncular myiasis-associated fly, has long been limited to the Afro-tropical region. In Saudi Arabia, Southwest region, part of the Afro-tropical region, has been considered the sole endemic region of C. anthropophaga outsid...