Livestock farming and its products provide a diverse range of benefits for our day-to-day life.
However, the ever-increasing demand for farmed animals has raised concerns about waste …

Enterococci have evolved over eons as highly adapted members of the gastrointestinal
consortia of a wide variety of hosts—humans and other mammals, birds, reptiles and insects …

The health-care facility environment is rarely implicated in disease transmission, except
among patients who are immunocompromised. Nonetheless, inadvertent exposures to …

The feeding and reproductive habits of non-biting synanthropic flies make them important
mechanical vectors of human pathogens. Synanthropic flies are major epidemiologic factors …

House flies (M usca domestica L.) are cosmopolitan, ubiquitous, synanthropic insects that
serve as mechanical or biological vectors for various microorganisms. To fully assess the …

An epidemic of enterohemorrhagic colitis caused by Escherichia coli O157: H7 (EHEC-
O157) occurred in a nursery school in a rural area of Japan in September 1996. The EHEC …

We previously reported that enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 (EHEC)
proliferates in the mouthparts of the house fly Musca domestica vicina Macquart and are …

Larval house flies, Musca domestica (L.), nutritionally require live bacteria; therefore, all
stadia are associated with microbe-rich environments. Larvae live among and ingest …

Background Domestic flies are accepted vectors of diarrhoea, but their role in trachoma
transmission has never been quantified and no study has shown that fly control decreases …

The housefly feeds and reproduces in animal manure and decaying organic substances and
thus lives in intimate association with various microorganisms including human pathogens …