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How can maggots eat rotting flesh and not suffer from the microorganisms present?

If a human were to a slab of chicken that had been left out for a few days they would surely get food poisoning. yet maggots live entirely on dead and rotting flesh, how do they not get ill?
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Maggots possess a wide array of bactericidal or bacteriostatic agents in the lower regions of their digestive system that are effective against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (such as E. coli, Salmonella, MRSA). These molecules include:

* Antimicrobial peptides (e.g. defensins)

* Proteolytic enzymes

By the time the food is fully digested, what is excreted contains relatively little bacteria at all. For more detailed information, check out Mumcuoglu, *et al.* 2001.