Maggots as potential vector for pathogen transmission and consequences for infection control in waste management

Background and aims: Debridement therapy with sterile bred larvae in non-healing wounds is a widely accepted safe and efficient treatment modality. However, during application in the contaminated wound bed microbial contamination with potential microbial pathogen spread after escape from the wound o...

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Main Authors: Daeschlein, Georg, Reese, Kevin, Napp, Matthias, Spitzmueller, Romy, Hinz, Peter, Juenger, Michael, Kramer, Axel
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2015-05-01
Series:GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
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Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/dgkh/2015-10/dgkh000250.shtml