LES Anti-Biofilm Activity

Bazaliński, D., Kózka, M., Karnas, M., & Więch, P. (2019). Effectiveness of Chronic Wound Debridement with the Use of Larvae of Lucilia Sericata. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(11), 1845. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8111845

Bohova, J., Majtan, J., Majtan, V., & Takac, P. (2014). Selective Antibiofilm Effects of Lucilia sericata Larvae Secretions/Excretions against Wound Pathogens. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2014, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/857360

Cazander, G., Pritchard, D. I., Nigam, Y., Jung, W., & Nibbering, P. H. (2013). Multiple actions of Lucilia sericata larvae in hard-to-heal wounds: Larval secretions contain molecules that accelerate wound healing, reduce chronic inflammation and inhibit bacterial infection. BioEssays: News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 35(12), 1083–1092. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201300071

Harris, L. G. (2009). Disruption of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms by medicinal maggot Lucilia sericata excretions/secretions (Patent US20110008402A1). https://patents.google.com/scholar/10449277235929420400

Harris, L. G., Bexfield, A., Nigam, Y., Rohde, H., Ratcliffe, N. A., & Mack, D. (2009). Disruption of Staphylococcus Epidermidis Biofilms by Medicinal Maggot Lucilia Sericata Excretions/Secretions. The International Journal of Artificial Organs, 32(9), 555–564. https://doi.org/10.1177/039139880903200904

Harris, L. G., Nigam, Y., Sawyer, J., Mack, D., & Pritchard, D. I. (2013). Lucilia sericata Chymotrypsin Disrupts Protein Adhesin-Mediated Staphylococcal Biofilm Formation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(4), 1393–1395. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03689-12

Liu, J., Jiang, J., Zong, J., Li, B., Pan, T., Diao, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., Lu, M., & Wang, S. (2021). Antibacterial and anti-biofilm effects of fatty acids extract of dried Lucilia sericata larvae against Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro. Natural Product Research, 35(10), 1702–1705. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2019.1627353

Maleki-Ravasan, N., Ahmadi, N., Soroushzadeh, Z., Raz, A. A., Zakeri, S., & Dinparast Djadid, N. (2020). New Insights Into Culturable and Unculturable Bacteria Across the Life History of Medicinal Maggots Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 505. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00505

McKenna, C. H., Asgari, D., Crippen, T. L., Zheng, L., Sherman, R. A., Tomberlin, J. K., Meisel, R. P., & Tarone, A. M. (2021). Gene expression in Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumanii identifies shared and microbe-specific induction of immune genes (p. 2021.04.02.438197). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.02.438197

Tamura, T., Cazander, G., Rooijakkers, S. H. M., Trouw, L. A., & Nibbering, P. H. (2017). Excretions/secretions from medicinal larvae (Lucilia sericata) inhibit complement activation by two mechanisms. Wound Repair and Regeneration: Official Publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society, 25(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/wrr.12504