Patent ID: 6557487
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: A01K,A61K

Abstract:
A process for therapeutic application of secretions of fly larvae (maggots) on a wound, the method comprising the steps of:providing an application container; introducing fly eggs into the application container, maintaining the application container under conditions which retard the further development of the eggs for storage; introducing the application container into an incubation container; maintaining the eggs in controlled incubating conditions in the incubation container; developing the fly larvae from the egg stage up to the maggot stage inside the application container, wherein development conditions are influenced in a controlled manner, wherein the maggots are grown until they secrete a therapeutically active secretion; removing the application container from the incubation container; applying the application container into the wound; wherein the application container includes fluid transmissive walls that allows the passing of secretions produced by the maggot through the walls of the application container into the wound but prevents passage of the maggots enclosed in the application container.