The article reviews literature on myiasis in Africa and cases that originated in Africa over the last two decades (1998–2018). The relevant literature was obtained by using several databases (Science-Direct, JSTOR, Google Scholar, Ebscohost and PubMed). We searched for the following words or their combination myiasis, maggots, fly species responsible for myiasis found in Africa, and the different types of myiasis. References in several articles provided links to other relevant works. Only papers written in English were reviewed. In total, we reviewed 51 articles which covered a total of 849 myiasis cases. The review encompasses geographical distribution of the disease, dipteran species responsible, predisposing factors, sex of the patient, type of myiasis and treatment. Myiasis is found in most parts of the African continent, however only 18 articles reported myiasis cases in Africa during the period under review. The rest of the articles report cases from the rest of the world but acquired by travellers when visiting Africa. Cordylobia anthropophaga (Blanchard) was responsible for 93.28% of all the reported cases in this review. The low number of articles on human myiasis reported in Africa may be due to underreporting by physicians or most cases are not diagnosed. Therefore, the actual prevalence of myiasis in Africa is currently unknown.

本文回顾了有关非洲肌病的文献以及过去二十年（1998-2018年）源自非洲的病例。相关文献是通过使用多个数据库（Science-Direct，JSTOR，Google Scholar，Ebscohost和PubMed）获得的。我们搜索了以下单词或它们的组合，即ia虫病，，非洲造成Africa虫病的蝇类以及各种类型的，虫病。几篇文章中的参考资料提供了其他相关作品的链接。只审查了用英语撰写的论文。总共，我们审查了51篇文章，涵盖了849例肌病。综述包括疾病的地理分布，负责的dip类物种，诱发因素，患者性别，肌病类型和治疗。在非洲大陆的大部分地区都发现了丝虫病，但是，在本报告所述期间，只有18篇文章报道了非洲的肌病病例。其余文章报道了来自世界其他地区的病例，但在访问非洲时被旅行者获取。Cordylobia anthropophaga（查德）是负责在本次审查的所有报告病例93.28％。非洲报道的有关人类肌病的文章数量很少，可能是由于医生的报道不足或多数病例未得到诊断。因此，目前尚不清楚非洲肌ia病的实际患病率。