Myiasis in Animals and Humans in Northeastern Anatolia

In this review, information was given about the prevalence, distrubution, protection and control of myiasis in animals and humans in Northeastern Turkey and the available data was evaluated. In a research, seventeen species belonging to the Sarcophagidae family were identified in Erzurum province. On the other hand, Hypoderma bovis is important for economic loss in Kars province and its prevalence was 31.9 %, while the mean number of warble fly larvae was 8.46 per infested animals. Oestrus ovis larvae were seen in 40.3 % of sheep in the latter province. The mean number of O. ovis larvae was 1.8 per animal examined, while it was 4.5 per animals infested. Myiasis rates of these animals in the area are higher than that of European countries as well as the western regions of Turkey. Ectoparasitic myiasis infestations in humans also has an important place in Northeastern Anatolia. The people around the barn and stables as well as in the grassland are at risk of myiasis because sheep and cattle breeding is done intensively is in the region. Most of the times Lucilia sericata is the cause of facultative myiasis in humans and animals, as well as Wohlfahrtia magnifica is encountered occasionally in the area. Myiasis should be considered by the doctors during the clinical examination especially in the months of May and October in which the fly population throughout the region is concentrated.