Title
The role of non-biting flies in the epidemiology of human infectious diseases
Date Issued
01 January 2001
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Masson SAS
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. © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.
Start page
231
End page
235
Volume
3
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0034999843
PubMed ID
Source
Microbes and Infection
ISSN of the container
12864579
Sponsor(s)
We apologize for not citing all original articles due to space constraints. The study was supported by the Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Maryland, USA (grant no. R/F-88), US Environmental Protection Agency (grant no. R824995), Maryland Zoological Society (grant no. H680-951-2118) and The Center For A Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University (grant no. H040-951-0180).
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