The maggots are used when they are only three days old and around two millimetres long.
The maggots them suck it back up, cleaning up the infection as they go.
The pain was intense as the maggots tried to get further into the wound.
The researchers are holding a series of study days around the country to spread the word about maggots.
In a letter to the British Medical Journal, they say doctors now use maggots as a last resort.
And casu marzu, the pungent cheese famous for visibly containing tiny maggots.
Those who leave the maggots may have to cover the cheese with their hands when disturbed, the maggots can jump up to six inches.
ZooBiotic now produces 600, 000 maggots, and 1, 500 dressings per month from its pharmaceutical production unit, supplying a client base of more than 4, 000.
His pioneering work saw him made a CBE in the New Year honours list for leading the way in using maggots in medicine.
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Among his first purchases: a glass container holding a cow's rotting head, with maggots and flies, by a recent art school graduate named Damien Hirst.
They should, instead, be ready for Damien Hirst's bisected pig, for example, or his glass room filled with flies, maggots and a (fake) cow's head.
Other wounds are more gruesome: Dr. Ahmed Obeid, also a refugee from Homs, shows pictures on his cell phone of a raw wound, crawling with maggots.
As one grower told a reporter, few things could do more harm to the state's citrus industry (not to mention people's breakfasts) than to have a consumer cut into a Florida orange one morning and find maggots.
Well, say goodbye to perfect nannies and jolly children: This is the time for messy kids to be called maggots, adults to be either nincompoops or fiends, and for childhoods to resemble something more Pink Floyd than Disney.
Over several hours of testimony an executive from Ohio's Department of Agriculture recounted a 2004 visit to Ohio Fresh Eggs, the nation's seventh-largest producer, where he saw hens afflicted with diarrhea and giant piles of wet manure, a breeding ground for maggots.
Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported this week that a recent visit to Wright County Egg, one of the Iowan firms responsible for the recall, found rats, maggots and manure piled several metres high at or near the egg-producing facilities.
Entomologists at the museum have set up a mock crime scene - complete with arc-lights, screens, a (thankfully fake) decomposing corpse and plenty of writhing Greenbottle maggots - as part of Science Uncovered: A Europe-wide event offering the public a rare insight into what goes on behind the public galleries.
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