Maggots in medicine
Discovery
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The Future of Antimicrobials
The University of York carried out the most comprehensive study on leg ulcers. They absolutely found that for debridement it was amazing and it worked better than all the alternatives they had looked at. And we also know that some research that we've done here is that maggots contain wound healing abilities as well. Once you've debridged a wound and got rid of all the dead tissue and then you've disinfected a wound, that wound can only heal when good cells that we call fibroblasts enter the wound to make new collagen or elastin. All the research is showing that fibroblasting migration occurs better if you've had maggots present on your wound
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