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Microbes and Infection

Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2001, Pages 231-235
Microbes and Infection

Review
The role of non-biting flies in the epidemiology of human infectious diseases

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Abstract

The feeding and reproductive habits of non-biting synanthropic flies make them important mechanical vectors of human pathogens. Synanthropic flies are major epidemiologic factors responsible for the spread of acute gastroenteritis and trachoma among infants and young children in (predominantly) developing countries. House flies are involved in mechanical transmission of nosocomial infections with multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital environments.

Keywords

synanthropic flies
housefly
enteropathogens
nosocomial infections
trachoma
Cryptosporidium

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