Maggot therapy for the treatment of intractable wounds.

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Published in Int J Dermatol on August 01, 1999

Authors

K Y Mumcuoglu1, A Ingber, L Gilead, J Stessman, R Friedmann, H Schulman, H Bichucher, I Ioffe-Uspensky, J Miller, R Galun, I Raz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Parasitology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

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