[Malignant fly-grub infection (myiasis) of the ear (author's transl)].

On the basis of an own observation of a malignant fly-grub infection of the ear and by means of a detailed checking of the literature a benignant and a malignant shape of this disease are distinguished. The peculiarities of the mode of infection in relation to the fly-species are described, some apparent typical characteristics of the Muscidae-Larva infection are put out and directions for treatment are given. The disease nearly wrotten in Europe to-day was not a seldom event especially in the eastern parts of Germany.