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'''[[Maggot Debridement Therapy]]
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====Maggot Debridement Therapy====
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[[Image:Maggot Therapy.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Maggot therapy on a wound - Wikimedia Commons]]
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*Human medicine
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**Sterile ''Lucilia sericata'' maggots used to treat infected and necrotic wounds
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**Larvae secrete proteolytic enzymes and antimicrobial agents into the wound
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**Larvae do not burrow under the skin or attack healthy tissue
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*Veterinary medicine
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**Published reports rare
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**Recently used successfully to treat a suppurative wound in a donkey that did not respond to conventional medical methods and surgery
       
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