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  2. Maggot - Wikipedia

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    Maggots feeding on an opossum carrion Maggots on a porcupine carcass Maggots from a rabbit. Common wild pig (boar) corpse decomposition timelapse. Maggots are visible. A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, [1] rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and ...

  3. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    Maggots in medical packaging. Maggot therapy improves healing in chronic ulcers. [1] In diabetic foot ulcers there is tentative evidence of benefit. [3] A Cochrane review of methods for the debridement of venous leg ulcers found maggot therapy to be broadly as effective as most other methods, but the study also noted that the quality of data was poor.

  4. Myiasis - Wikipedia

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    Maggot therapy – also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, or larvae therapy – is the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected green bottle fly maggots into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of selectively cleaning ...

  5. Corpse decomposition - Wikipedia

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    The size and development stage of maggots can be used to give a measure of the minimum time since death. [9]: 251–252 Insect activity occurs in a series of waves, and identifying the insects present can give additional information on the postmortem interval. [10] Adipocere, or corpse wax, may be formed, inhibiting further decomposition.

  6. Calliphoridae - Wikipedia

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    Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is the medical use of selected, laboratory-raised fly larvae for cleaning nonhealing wounds. Medicinal maggots perform debridement by selectively eating only dead tissue. Lucilia sericata (Phaenicia sericata), or the common green bottlefly, is the preferred species used in maggot therapy. [58]

  7. Texas warning of "maneater" screwworms that lay eggs in flesh

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    The New Year is starting with a fresh warning for those who work with animals in Texas. ... The Texas parks department says the maggots will lay eggs in "open wounds or orifices of live tissue ...