US health officials are urging cattle producers to be on high alert after a parasitic screwworm was found in Mexico, the ...
In the later situation carefully controlled myiasis can even be of benefit to the host in 'maggot therapy' (Sherman et al., 2000). Bloodsucking larvae of the African species Auchmeromyia senegalensis ...
Screwworm flies prefer to nest on the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing ...
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Dr. Ronald Sherman started studying myiasis and maggot therapy during medical school and published his first paper on the topic in 1983. He started the first prospective studies of maggot therapy ...