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Myroides bacteremia associated with wound myiasis: A case report and focused literature review.

  • Blake Piepenbrink1
  • Vivek Sreepathi2
  • Catherine Pulaski3
  • Christian Corpus4
  • Vidit Yadav1
  • Henry Anyimadu5
5 affiliations
  1. 1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, United States.
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, United States.
  3. 3Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Connecticut, Farmington, United States.
  4. 4Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dothan, United States.
  5. 5The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain, United States.
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Abstract

Myroides is a gram-negative rod that most commonly affects immunocompromised hosts. Traditional risk factors for infection include soil or water exposure, but one less well-described risk factor is myiasis: the infestation of living tissue by maggots. We present a 50-year-old man with end-stage liver disease and chronic lower-extremity wounds who developed Myroides bacteremia in association with nonsterile maggot infestation. A literature review of PubMed, Ovid (Embase and MEDLINE), Web of Science, and Scopus identified three other cases of Myroides infection in the setting of myiasis. Myroides has been identified as part of the gastrointestinal microbiota of two fly families whose larval stages are implicated in myiasis. We propose that transmission occurs via inoculation of wounds with larval oral secretions or feces. We examine the pathogenesis of Myroides and the uncommon association between Myroides and myiasis.

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@article{piepenbrink2026myroides,
  title = {{Myroides bacteremia associated with wound myiasis: A case report and focused literature review.}},
  author = {Blake Piepenbrink and Vivek Sreepathi and Catherine Pulaski and Christian Corpus and Vidit Yadav and Henry Anyimadu},
  journal = {IDCases},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1016/j.idcr.2026.e02784},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42898124},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Myroides bacteremia associated with wound myiasis: A case report and focused literature review.
AU  - Blake Piepenbrink
AU  - Vivek Sreepathi
AU  - Catherine Pulaski
AU  - Christian Corpus
AU  - Vidit Yadav
AU  - Henry Anyimadu
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
JO  - IDCases
DO  - 10.1016/j.idcr.2026.e02784
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42898124
AB  - Myroides is a gram-negative rod that most commonly affects immunocompromised hosts. Traditional risk factors for infection include soil or water exposure, but one less well-described risk factor is myiasis: the infestation of living tissue by maggots. We present a 50-year-old man with end-stage liver disease and chronic lower-extremity wounds who developed Myroides bacteremia in association with nonsterile maggot infestation. A literature review of PubMed, Ovid (Embase and MEDLINE), Web of Science, and Scopus identified three other cases of Myroides infection in the setting of myiasis. Myroides has been identified as part of the gastrointestinal microbiota of two fly families whose larval stages are implicated in myiasis. We propose that transmission occurs via inoculation of wounds with larval oral secretions or feces. We examine the pathogenesis of Myroides and the uncommon association between Myroides and myiasis.
SN  - 2214-2509
ER  -