Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia recovered from flies on a cattle farm and in a landfill.
Filth flies associated with a cattle barn and a municipal landfill were tested positive by combined immunofluorescent antibody and fluorescent in situ hybridization for Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia on their exoskeletons and in their guts. More pathogens were carried by flies from the cattle barn than from the landfill; 81% of C. parvum and 84% of G. lamblia pathogens were presumptively viable.
Szostakowska
Beata
B
Department of Tropical Parasitology, Interfaculty Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland.
Kruminis-Lozowska
Wieslawa
W
Racewicz
Maria
M
Knight
Ronald
R
Tamang
Leena
L
Myjak
Przemyslaw
P
Graczyk
Thaddeus K
TK
D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D016785:Cryptosporidium parvum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003612:Dairying; D004175:Diptera / Q000469:parasitology*; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; D016829:Giardia lamblia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D012037:Refuse Disposal