What’s Bugging This Traveler?

A woman returns from travel with pruritic skin nodules unresponsive to antibiotics. Explore the Differential Diagnosis for a returning traveler’s skin lesion.

Myiasis


A 62-year-old woman with recent travel to Colombia presented with pruritic, draining nodules with a central punctum on her back and buttocks. The lesions were unchanged after a trial of antibiotics. What is the most likely diagnosis?

What is the most likely diagnosis?

Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Epidermoid cyst
Furunculosis
Myiasis
Tungiasis

Botfly, Dermatology, Myiasis, Pruritic Nodule, Returning Traveler

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