Sir, Antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a growing problem. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a frequent nosocomial pathogen in many countries, with a high incidence in southern Europe, but with a lower incidence in Scandinavia (1). MRSA is most commonly isolated from ulcers and the respiratory tract (1).We report here a case of a leg ulcer carryingMRSA, which was treated w...

Chayote plants (Sechium edule) with monoecious characters require a pollination process. The process requires pollinating agents to increase its productivity, one of which is insects. This research aimed determine the diversity and abundance insects pollinator on chayote plants. Observation used scan sampling method. Pollinator observations were carried out in 3 time periods, morning, afternoon...

The relationship between insect development and temperature has been well established and has a wide range of uses, including the use of blow flies for postmortem (PMI) interval estimations in death investigations. To use insects in estimating PMI, we must be able to determine the insect age at the time of discovery and backtrack to time of oviposition. Unfortunately, existing development model...

Lucilia spp. also known as green bottle fly is well distributed, and it has forensic, medical veterinary importance. In the present study, sericata (Wiedemann, 1830) been recorded from Trans-Himalayan region of cold arid desert Kargil Ladakh. Distribution over a period April 2018 to March 2021 revealed that fairly distributed with maximum abundance being in midsummer July August, no activities ...

We report a case of human nasal nosocomial myiasis in a 69-year-old rural man with numerous live maggots in nostrils. The patient was admitted in Emergency Ward due to dyspnea. After 72 hours the companion of patient discovered larva. The presence of the third instar larva indicated that the infestation was not more than three days. The collected instars were cleared, fixed and morphological st...

Larvae of Lucilia sericata are used for maggot debridement therapy (MDT) because of their ability to remove necrotic tissue and eradicate bacterial pathogens of infected wounds. So far, very few antibacterial factors have been fully characterized (eg lucifensin). Using a molecular approach, some other putative antimicrobial compounds, including three novel lysozymes, have been previously identi...

We describe and test a method for fitting noisy differential equation models to a time series of population counts, motivated by stage-structured models of insect and zooplankton populations. We consider semimechanistic models, in which the model structure is derived from knowledge of the life cycle, but the rate equations are estimated nonparametrically from the time-series data. The method in...

background: the aim of his study was to determine development time and thermal requirements of three myiasis flies including chrysomya albiceps, lucilia sericata, and sarcophaga sp. methods: rate of development (rod) and accumu­lated degree day ( add) of three important forensic flies in iran, chrysomya albiceps, lucilia sericata, and sarcophaga sp. by rearing individuals under a single constan...

Defensins are the most widespread antimicrobial peptides characterised in insects. These cyclic peptides, 4-6 kDa in size, are folded into α-helical/β-sheet mixed structures and have a common conserved motif of three intramolecular disulfide bridges with a Cys1-Cys4, Cys2-Cys5 and Cys3-Cys6 connectivity. They have the ability to kill especially Gram-positive bacteria and some fungi, but Gram-ne...