title: Quantifying the potential pathogens transmission of the blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
abstract: To quantify the potential capability of transporting and passing infective pathogens of some blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Mihályi's danger-index was calculated for seven species. The original equation was modified to include synanthropic information to discriminate between asynanthropic, hemisynanthropic, and eusynanthropic status. Three groups were recognized, of which Phaenicia cluvia and Musca domestica proved the flies with lowest index value (D = 2.93 and 3.00 respectively); Cochliomyia macellaria, Chrysomya albiceps and Sarconesia chlorogaster presented a significantly higher index value (p<0.10; D = 4.28, 4.44 and 5.66 respectively) and C. megacephala, C. vicina and P. sericata appear to represent the heaviest potential sanitary risk with the highest index value (p<0.10; D = 15.54, 16.88 and 12.49 respectively).
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones, Programa de Investigación de Interacciones Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Sáenz Peña, Argentina.
authors.forename: Marcelo A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Maldonado
authors.forename: Néstor
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Centeno
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000469:parasitology*; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000502:physiology; D012307:Risk Factors