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Myiasis Producing Flies (view source)
Revision as of 20:25, 8 November 2008
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**Sterile meales released
**Sterile meales released
**Eradication occured in 1991
**Eradication occured in 1991
===Maggot Debridement Therapy===
*Human medicine
**Sterile ''Lucilla sericata'' maggots used to treat infected and necrotic wounds
**Larvae secrete proteolytic enzymes and antimicrobial agents into the wound
***Larvae do not burrow under the skin or attack healthy tissue
*Veterinary medicine
**Published reports rare
**Recently used successfully to treat a suppurative wound in a donkey that did not respond to conventional methods and surgery
==''Wohlfahrtia'' sp.==
==''Wohlfahrtia'' sp.==
*'''Obligatory''' parasite
*Occurs in North America
*Parasite of mink and sometimes humans
'''Recongition'''
'''Recongition'''
*Large 8-14mm long
*Pale grey
*Black stripes in thorax
*Black spots on abdomen
'''Life Cycle'''
'''Life Cycle'''
*Larvae deposited directly onto host
**No egg stage
*Larvae moult twice on host then fall to ground to pupate
'''Pathogenesis'''
'''Pathogenesis'''
*Larvae penetrate intact skin
**Cause boil like swellings
==Links==
==Links==