After debridement and before dressing a wound with maggots of calliphorid flies, one frequently performed step is the application of antiseptics to the prepared wound bed. However, the concomitant application of antiseptic agents during maggot therapy is regarded controversial as antiseptics may interfere with maggots' viability. In this experimental in vitro study, the viability of fly maggots...

The attraction of washed, medium-free cells of Pantoea (Enterobacter) agglomerans to wild, adult Rhagoletis mendax Curran, the blueberry maggot fly, was evaluated in managed blueberry fields in Maine. Attraction was evaluated using Pherocon AM and Ladd traps, each tested with or without washed bacterial cells. Field studies showed significant increases in fly captures on the Pherocon AM traps. ...

The objective of this study was to analyse the changes of inflammatory cytokines level in traumatic rat serum after maggot secretions intervention. Acute traumatic rats were randomly divided into three groups that included maggot secretions group, negative group, and the control group. TNF-α, IL-6, SOD, LPO levels were measured by radioimmunoassay. The experimental results showed that TNF-α, IL...

Maggot debridement therapy (MDT), which lost its importance after discovering antibiotics, has recently come to the fore with increase of antibiotic resistance. MDT, widely used in human medicine, had limited use veterinary medicine. The material this case report was a 5-month-old Doberman dog that bandaged due fracture left hind toe. It got information bandage leg area wet and remained on woun...

Maggot debridement therapy is the introduction of live and disinfected fly larvae in a wound order to aid cleaning healing. This technique was discovered as beneficial effect colonization human tissue by (myiasis). discovery made during World War I when it observed that injured soldiers whose wounds were infested with maggots healed faster than their counterparts free from maggots. In this ther...

Apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a pest of major concern to apple, Malus x domestica (Borkh.) production in eastern North America. Host plant resistance to apple maggot among apple germplasm has been previously evaluated among a small number of exotic Malus accessions and domestic hybrid selections. However, a large number of exotic accessions housed in USDA...

BACKGROUND Chlorantraniliprole formulated as a 350 g kg(-1) WG (Altacor 35WG) for management of apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), blueberry maggot R. mendax Curran and cherry fruit fly R. cingulata (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae) was evaluated in laboratory assays and field trials. RESULTS A tarsal contact toxicity bioassay showed that a surface residue of 500 mg L(-1) of chlorantranil...