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Maggot Therapy for Snakebite Necrotic Wound in a Horse [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 2021 Maggot therapy is the use of sterile fly larvae in the treatment of superficial wounds in humans and animals. Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae are most commonly used for this purpose.
Masoud Ahmadnejad, Fereydon Rezazadeh
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Cerebral larval infection presenting as delayed encephalopathy and nonconvulsive status epilepticus: a case report [PDF]
Encephalitis, 2021 Adult cerebral Toxocara canis larval infections are rare. Humans are infected by contacting soil that contains infectious eggs or by eating undercooked meat. We encountered a patient with cerebral T. canis infection who showed recurrent altered mentality
Jung-Ju Lee +6 more
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Entomological Communications, 2021 Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is an exotic blowfly in Brazil and it is considered one of the main species of medical-forensic importance.
Renata A. Gama +8 more
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Terapia de desbridamiento larval: una revisión sistemática
NURE Investigación, 2023 Objetivo. Analizar la evidencia disponible sobre la efectividad de la terapia larval en el tratamiento de las heridas crónicas. Método. Estudio de revisión mediante revisión sistemática.
María Alonso González +1 more
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Larval therapy in wound management: a review. [PDF]
International journal of clinical practice, 2007 Debridement is an essential component of wound care as the presence of devitalised tissue can impede the healing process. Larval therapy has been used for the debridement of wounds for several hundred years. A plethora of literature is available on larval therapy, but many authors acknowledge the paucity of large-scale clinical trials supporting its ...
A, Parnés, K M, Lagan
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Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Leishmaniasis is a neglected infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania. The disease generally manifests as characteristic skin lesions which require lengthy treatment with antimonial drugs that are often associated with ...
Jila Sherafati +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Larval therapy (LT) is an alternative treatment for healing chronic wounds; its action is based on debridement, the removal of bacteria, and stimulating granulation tissue.
Andrea Díaz-Roa +8 more
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A metagenomic assessment of the bacteria associated with Lucilia sericata and Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae) [PDF]
, 2014 Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is a blow fly genus of forensic, medical, veterinary, and agricultural importance. This genus is also famous because of its beneficial uses in maggot debridement therapy (MDT).
Crippen, Tawni L +10 more
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Healthcare in Low-resource Settings, 2023 The poor economic situation, ongoing political instability, and the 2020 Beirut explosion have seriously eroded the capacity of the Lebanese healthcare system.
Salman Shayya, Frank Stadler
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Estimation of life expectancy and measurement of immature stages of Lucilia sericata fed on three kinds of diets [PDF]
Journal of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, 2020 Background and Objectives: Finding the best diet is very important to rear Lucilia sericata larvae for therapeutic purposes and prepare standard curves in forensic entomology.
Omid Dehghan +6 more
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