Larval Therapy: Using Flies to Heal Difficult Wounds
Small larvae were sent by mail from a laboratory in Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo, in Brazil, to hospitals in cities such as Natal, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. They were larvae of two species of flies created, fed and sterilized by the biologist Patricia Thyssen, from the State … Read more