title: Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia recovered from flies on a cattle farm and in a landfill.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Tropical Parasitology, Interfaculty Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland.
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Szostakowska
authors.forename: Wieslawa
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kruminis-Lozowska
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Racewicz
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: Leena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tamang
authors.forename: Przemyslaw
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Myjak
authors.forename: Thaddeus K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Graczyk
mesh_terms: 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