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Competent Vector-Host-Pathogen Interplay: maggots

 
Myiasis - Rat-tailed Maggots - Leeches - Medical Framework
Public concern about human myiasis, ecto- or intestinal parasitism; have been on the rise since incidents of non conventional terrorist attacks like anthrax poisoning, food sabotage and the use of food as a weapon of terrorism first surfaced in 2001.  The challenge to push the advancement of food and water safety into the next centuries have become more critical and urgent as the need to protect consumers from unintentional and deliberate food-water contamination have arisen given the complexities of immigration and food environments in our world global village. 
 
We first came across life rat-tailed maggots, exotic creatures described initially as artifacts, in November 1996 in Dschang, Cameroon, West Africa. We were led into the world of rat-tailed maggots through its scourges and burdens on some of our loved ones. Since then working in an enclosed and bounded field of unknowing, we have come up with the following website as the first step towards gathering and documenting the scarce scattered literature and many faces of rat-tailed maggots & larvae, its relatives and their scourges.
Enabling & Building a knowledge-base & data-bank on Rat-Tailed Maggots & hatched Larvae for use as reference

 

pupae of rat-tailed larvae

http://faculty.unionky.edu/fachenjang/outreach

 
 
Anatomy & Entomology of Myiasis resulting from ecto- & endo-parasitism of animals and man

 

 

banana rot-trunk hatched rat-tailed larvae

http://faculty.unionky.edu/fachenjang/outreach

 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & CONTACT
 
What we have on the following pages is a Special Panoramic Collection, a Compendium & Resource on leeches, maggots  & larvae as a way to move forward in understanding Our World of Rat-Tailed Maggot & other Larval Infestation & Diversity.
 
Like other broad compilations & databases, we have attempted to give credit to the sources as much as possible. In some cases, we have unintentionally failed to give adequate credit & also excluded some important data. In all cases, we crave your indulgence to the evolving piece of work & request that readers kindly call our attention to any errors, ommisions & commisions using the following contact address.

RTM Pearls - Union College
310 College St. Box 819
Barbourville, KY 40906
tel: + 606-546 1275
fax: + 606- 546 1636
rattailedlarve@maggotresource.com