The Journal of Dermatology, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page e430-e480, June 2025.
Yoshihide Asano +27 more
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Maggot Therapy Versus Conventional Debridement: A Literature Review [PDF]
, 2013 Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is one of the oldest treatment regimens used for healing infectious and chronic wounds. The literature review will identify what research is available to support the use of medical maggots over the use of conventional ...
Vigen, Rebecca A
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Maggot therapy for wound care in Iran: a case series of the first 28 patients [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: The need for improved wound care is receiving considerable attention in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Beginning in 2003, maggot therapy (MT) became part of Iran's effort to advance its wound care technology.
S.A.B. Rosen +4 more
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Environmental Factors Influencing the Growth of Lucilia sericata Larvae Used for Maggot Therapy under Laboratory Condition [PDF]
Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018 Background: The larvae of Lucilia sericata are efficiently and widely used in maggot therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate some environmental factors that influence the mass rearing of Lucilia sericata as the most suitable candidates for ...
Faranak Firoozfar +9 more
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Maggot therapy, alginate dressing, and surgical sharp debridement: Unique path to save unresponsive diabetic foot ulcer. [PDF]
Int J Surg Case Rep, 2023 Hajimohammadi K +4 more
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Diabetic foot ulcer: Successful healing with combination therapy, including surgical debridement, maggot therapy, and negative pressure wound therapy. [PDF]
Int J Surg Case Rep, 2023 Babamiri B +5 more
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BioTherapeutics, Education and Research Foundation position paper: Assessing the competency of clinicians performing maggot therapy. [PDF]
Wound Repair Regen, 2022 Sherman RA, Chon R.
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Nursing aspects and patient management in maggot therapy [PDF]
, 2006 Maggot therapy is a means of cleansing chronic wounds and stimulating wound healing, in addition to eliminating colonization with undesired bacteria, e.g., MRSA.
Nußbaum, B
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Heliyon, 2019 Maggots of Lucilia sericata and L. cuprina are a backbone of the maggot debridement therapy. Further, the excretion/secretion (E/S) of these maggots has antibacterial and antifungal activities, nevertheless the antiviral activity of E/S for these maggots
Mohammad R.K. Abdel-Samad
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The utilisation of maggot debridement therapy in Pretoria, South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Maggots are known to clean wounds by removing slough and dead tissue. This was put to therapeutic use in the last century, between the world wars, when it was in use in at least 300 hospitals in the United States and being prescribed by at least 1 000 ...
Pretorius, Jan P. +1 more
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