Bacterial Communities in Adult Female House Fly and Manure from Cattle Farms Raw sequence reads
House flies are nuisance pests of cattle and serves as reservoirs, disseminators, and mechanical vectors of wide range of microbes, especially bacteria that could have acquired from animals and their waste. Examining the bacterial communities of individual house flies and assessing the effects of farm type, location and sampling date on community composition are essential to understand the role of house flies as a vector of bacteria in cattle operations. This study characterized bacterial communities of individual female house flies and manure samples collected during July to October from dairy and beef farms located in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States. Bacterial community composition in fly and manure samples reflect local farm environment. House fly acquire and harbor almost all manure bacteria. Highly prevalent bacterial communities included potential pathogenic taxa of human and animals such as Corynebacterium, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Enterobacteriaceae, Providencia, Acinetobacter, and Clostridium. These results showed that house flies are important carrier of cattle pathogens and may contributes to disseminate those into farm animals.