Chris MassariAlbert L. VincentVeronica T. TucciJohn N. GreeneChakrapol Sriaroon2011-02-152011-02-152010-01-262010-01-26Asian Biomedicine (Research Reviews and News); Vol. 2 No. 6 December 2008; 499-502http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/129807Surgical maggots have been used successfully for wound debridement over the past millennium. At Johns Hopkins University in 1929, Baer introduced maggots into the wounds of 21 patients with chronic intractable osteomyelitis. The development of methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus has been a major impetus to resurgent interest in maggot debridement. In January of 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Dr. Ronald Sherman permission to produce and market surgical maggots for debriding non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds. Given an uncooperative patient with non-healing wounds, our medical team obtained insectary-reared sterile surgical maggots, Phaenicia sericata, to promote debridement of necrotic tissue and development of granulation tissue.en-USAsian Biomedicine (Research Reviews and News)Maggot debridementsurgical maggotsPhaenicia sericatapyoderma gangrenosumClinical report