UNLABELLED Debridement is an essential component to promote healing in a problem wound. Several techniques are available including maggot debridement therapy (MDT). OBJECTIVE To describe the efficacy of MDT for treating problem wound especially diabetic foot ulcers. METHODS The topic is elucidated from different points of view: the mode of action, when to use, use in a practice, clinical re...

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An experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of replacing fish meal with maggot meal on the performance, carcass characteristic, haematological and serum biochemical indices of growing rabbits. Sixty rabbits of mixed breed, aged 6 – 8 weeks were randomly taken for the dietary treatments in a completely randomized design with twelve rabbits per treatment were replicated three times with...

Biological therapy using Lucilia sericata larvae has numerous advocates worldwide, yet it is still fairly unknown and not commonly applied in daily practice because of the limited awareness insufficient experience medical nursing personnel. There are case reports suggesting that maggot can be supported by lay caregivers, provided they supervised informed physicians/nurses. The foregoing observa...

Sing, K.W., Sofian-Azirun, M. and Tayyab, S. 2012. Protein analysis of Chrysomya megacephala maggot meal. Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology, 12: 35-46. Protein content of Chysomya megacephala maggot meal extract was determined using different colorimetric methods such as biuret method, dye-binding method and Lowry method. Protein estimation was performed after dissolution of maggot powder in...

We investigated the use of nonwoven fiber barriers for control of cabbage maggot, Delia radicum (L.), and onion maggot, D. antiqua (Meigen). The barriers consist of arrangements of minute fibers loosely intertwined in "web" form. Results from a greenhouse experiment showed that manually applied graphite fibers placed at the base of broccoli plants reduced the number of D. radicum eggs by 64-98%...

BACKGROUND Calciphylaxis cutis is characterized by media calcification of arteries and, most prominently, of cutaneous and subcutaneous arterioles occurring in renal insufficiency patients. CASE REPORT A 53-year-old woman with chronic cardiac and renal failure complained of painful crural, non-varicosis ulcers. She was hospitalized in an immobilized condition due to both the crural ulceration...