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  2. 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 ...

  3. Dermatobia hominis - Wikipedia

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    The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis (Greek δέρμα, skin + βίος, life, and Latin hominis, of a human), is a species of botfly whose larvae parasitise humans (in addition to a wide range of other animals, including other primates [1]).

  4. Botfly - Wikipedia

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    The word "bot" in this sense means a maggot. [4] A warble is a skin lump or callus such as might be caused by an ill-fitting harness, or by the presence of a warble fly maggot under the skin. The human botfly, Dermatobia hominis , is the only species of botfly whose larvae ordinarily parasitise humans, though flies in some other families ...

  5. Group home being investigated after maggots found in man's ...

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    The call for a federal probe into the state's facilities arrives after Steven Wegner, 41, was found twice to have a maggot infestation in his breathing tube in a sate-run facility last summer in ...

  6. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    The nearly five-minute video consists entirely of close ups of the infestation and footage of the maggots being pulled from the ear. The video, posted earlier this year to YouTube, has more than ...

  7. Cordylobia anthropophaga - Wikipedia

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    Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly, or skin maggot fly, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage. [1] C. anthropophaga is found in the tropics of Africa and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region. [2]

  8. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia

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    The infestation by maggots of live animals is called myiasis. Some maggots will feed only on dead tissue, some only on live tissue, and some on live or dead tissue. The flies used most often for the purpose of maggot therapy are blow flies of the Calliphoridae: the blow fly species used most commonly is Lucilia sericata, the common green bottle ...

  9. Florida Woman Finds Maggot in Her Groin After Honeymoon Trip ...

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    Florida Woman Finds Maggot in Her Groin After Honeymoon Trip to Belize