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Perinatal/Neonatal Case Presentation

Neonatal umbilical cord myiasis in New Jersey

Journal of Perinatology volume 34, pages 718–719 (2014)Cite this article

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Human myiasis is a rare condition. It is more common in tropical regions. Umbilical cord myiasis has not previously been reported from a temperate climate, for example, New Jersey. We report a 9-day-old infant with umbilical cord myiasis. The maggots were identified by the entomologist as the larvae of Sarcophagidae, more commonly known as flesh flies.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University, for identifying the larvae. We acknowledge the assistance of Christopher Duffy, librarian at Somerset Medical Center. We are also grateful to Sylvia, Christina and Chrystal Puvabanditsin for supporting this effort and helping with the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    S Puvabanditsin, I Malik, S Jadhav, J Sanderman & R Mehta

  2. Department of Entomology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Puvabanditsin, S., Malik, I., Weidner, L. et al. Neonatal umbilical cord myiasis in New Jersey. J Perinatol 34, 718–719 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/jp.2014.69

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