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**Sterile meales released
**Sterile meales released
**Eradication occured in 1991
**Eradication occured in 1991
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===Maggot Debridement Therapy===
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*Human medicine
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**Sterile ''Lucilla 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 methods and surgery
==''Wohlfahrtia'' sp.==
==''Wohlfahrtia'' sp.==
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*'''Obligatory''' parasite
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*Occurs in North America
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*Parasite of mink and sometimes humans
'''Recongition'''
'''Recongition'''
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*Large 8-14mm long
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*Pale grey
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*Black stripes in thorax
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*Black spots on abdomen
'''Life Cycle'''
'''Life Cycle'''
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*Larvae deposited directly onto host
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**No egg stage
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*Larvae moult twice on host then fall to ground to pupate
'''Pathogenesis'''
'''Pathogenesis'''
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*Larvae penetrate intact skin
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'''Control'''
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**Cause boil like swellings
==Links==
==Links==
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