Maggots rid patients of MRSA
University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers with
maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duration for th...
Maggots in a hospital ward!!
Maggots were found crawling on the surgical ward floor in a Scottish hospital. The patients were subsequently moved out of the ward at Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin.// According to pest control experts, a dead bird on the ward’s roof was responsible for the infestation.NHS Grampian said that the ward was thoroughly cleaned and the patients could return after the clinicians gave the all-...
Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA
University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers// with
maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duration...
Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA
University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers with
maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duratio...