ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2006
Maggot Therapy: The Science and Implication for CAM Part I-History and Bacterial Resistance.
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- Wound Myiasis in Severe Venous Stasis Ulcer.Cureus · 2020Article
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- Effectiveness of Chronic Wound Debridement with the Use of Larvae ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
- Antiviral and virucidal activities ofHeliyon · 2019Article
- Sterilization of blow fly eggs, Chrysomya megacephala and Lucilia cuprina, (Diptera: Calliphoridae) for maggot debridement therapy application.Parasitology research · 2017Article
- Evaluation of conventional therapeutic methods versus maggot therapy in the evolution of healing of tegumental injuries in Wistar rats with and without diabetes mellitus.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- Human wound myiasis caused by Phormia regina and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis in Minia Governorate, Egypt.Parasitology research · 2015Article
- Antimicrobial peptides expressed in medicinal maggots of the blow fly Lucilia sericata show combinatorial activity against bacteria.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2015Article
- Mechanisms of maggot-induced wound healing: what do we know, and where do we go from here?Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014Review
- Adjunct methods of the standard diabetic foot ulceration therapy.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2013Article
- Myiasis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2012Review
- Methylglyoxal-a potential risk factor of manuka honey in healing of diabetic ulcers.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2011Article
- Pain Controlling and Cytokine-regulating Effects of Lyprinol, a Lipid Extract of Perna Canaliculus, in a Rat Adjuvant-induced Arthritis Model.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2009Article
- Biologic therapeutics and molecular profiling to optimize wound healing.Gynecologic oncology · 2008Review
- Evaluation of Antioxidant and Wound Healing Effects of Alcoholic and Aqueous Extract of Ocimum sanctum Linn in Rats.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2008Article
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Abstract
It is now a universally acknowledged fact that maggot therapy can be used successfully to treat chronic, long-standing, infected wounds, which have previously failed to respond to conventional treatment. Such wounds are typically characterized by the presence of necrotic tissue, underlying infection and poor healing. Maggot therapy employs the use of freshly emerged, sterile larvae of the common green-bottle fly, Phaenicia (Lucilia) sericata, and is a form of artificially induced myiasis in a controlled clinical situation. In this review article, we will discuss the role of maggots and their preparation for clinical use. Maggot therapy has the following three core beneficial effects on a wound: debridement, disinfection and enhanced healing. In part I we explore our current understanding of the mechanisms underlying these effects.
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