| use of sterile maggots to treat panniculitis in an aged donkey. | an aged female donkey developed a severe, localised, suppurative panniculitis secondary to a skin wound. bacterial culture of swabs taken from the wound gave a profuse growth of multi-drug-resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa, a profuse growth of escherichia coli and a moderate growth of beta-haemolytic streptococcus species. the lesion did not respond to conventional medical and surgical treatment and continued to progress. six applications of sterile larvae (maggots) of the common greenbottle, luc ... | 2001 | 11808664 |