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Abstract
It is generally recognized that maggots can excrete a complex mixture of substances into a wound that can clean the wound and stimulate its healing. One aspect of the complex mode of action of this effect is antibacterial activity The present study has thus shown the effectiveness of antibacterial activity of Lucilia cuprina 3rd instar larval and pupal phases (early-, mid-, and late-pupae) against gram-negative bacteria (E.coli). This species of the Calliphoridae family may furnish a new species to be applicable for maggot therapy (MT) as its antibacterial agent from whole body extract of selected phases revealed promising results assessed with each technique used here, permitting this study to add Lucilia cuprina as an alternative model to be adapted in maggot therapy, in competition to L. sericata.