BACKGROUND Antiseptics are frequently used for the prophylaxis and treatment of local infections of chronic wounds. Whereas local antiseptics in general have a positive effect on wound healing an uncritical use may impair wound healing due to toxic side effects. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the vascular irritation potential of different antiseptic solutions and ointments commonly used for sh...

Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is the use of the larval stage of flies (i.e., Calliphoridae) to remove necrotic tissue and disinfect wounds. Effective MDT requires aseptic technique to prevent the unintentional introduction of pathogenic bacteria into a wound to be debrided; yet the external surface of Calliphoridae eggs is often heavily contaminated with bacteria. Studies of external disinfe...

Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is increasingly being used as a fast and effective treatment of non-healing wounds. It has been demonstrated that the application of sterile larvae to an infected non-healing wound results in the removal of necrotic tissue (debridement), disinfection, rapid elimination of infecting microorganisms and enhancement of the healing process. Many studies have provided...

Immature Lucilia sericata (Meigen) raised on beef liver, beef heart, pork liver and pork heart at a mean temperature of 20.6°C took a minimum of 20 days to complete development. Minimum development time differences within stages were observed between the meat types (pork/beef), but not the organ types (liver/heart). Daily hyperspectral measurements were conducted and a functional regression was...

The survival of parasitic plant Rafflesia depends on the host plant, habitat condition, vegetational types, , pollination and dispersal seeds. This study aims to investigate visits by insects variation in floral temperatures gradutensis during flowering. flower was observed be visited green fly Lucilia sericata weaver ant Oecophylla sp. number L. 617 times 337 sp, which most occur mid-day. aver...

The post-mortem interval (PMI) of a jungle cat (Felis chaus) and chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) were estimated as mammalian an avian model, respectively. estimations performed adopting the Accumulated Degree Hours (ADH) method using blowfly, Lucilia sericata. required developmental time from oviposition to 3rd instar larvae blowfly species was considered for determination PMI in each study....

Maggots (larvae of Lucilia sericata) have shown therapeutic effects on refractory wounds infected with bacteria, yet the bacterial killing mechanisms are unclear. Herein, we report the isolation and purification of an antibacterial protein from maggots (MAMP). MAMP demonstrated inhibitory activity against both standard strains and clinically isolated antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococc...