Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-2l2gl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-25T14:46:41.062Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Human helminth parasite burdens on cyclorrhaphan flies (Diptera) trapped at an aboriginal settlement in Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Sallehudin Sulaiman ,
Abdul Rahim Sohadi  and
John Jeffery
Sallehudin Sulaiman
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abdul Rahim Sohadi
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
John Jeffery
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The human helminth parasite burdens on cyclorrhaphan flies was studied in an aboriginal settlement in Malaysia in 1987–88. Chrysomya megacephala (F.), which formed 79.5% of total fly population trapped in this settlement, had eggs of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, the pinworm Trichuris trichiura and hookworm (Necator americanus and/or Ancylostoma duodenale) on the external body surface and gut lumen. There was a close correlation between monthly rainfall and the mean numbers of C. megacephala caught per two trap-hours. Eggs (but no larvae) of the parasites were found on flies when the monthly rainfall and the C. megacephala population were relatively high, in April-June 1987, October-November 1987 and March 1988. Human helminth eggs were also isolated from C. rufifacies (Macquart) and Hemipyrellia tagaliana (Bigot), being recorded from the latter in Malaysia for the first time.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , November 1989 , pp. 625 - 629
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Dipeolu, O. O. (1977). Field and laboratory investigation into the role of the Musca species in the transmission of intestinal parasitic cysts and eggs in Nigeria.—J. Hyg. Epidem. Microbiol. Immun. 21, 209–214.Google Scholar
Greenberg, B. (1973). Flies and disease. Vol. II. Biology and disease transmission.—447 pp. New Jersey, Princeton Univ. Press.Google Scholar
Navin, T. R. & Juranek, D. D. (1984). Cryptosporidiosis: clinical, epidemiologic and parasitologic review.—Rev. Infect. Dis. 6, 313–327.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Reid, J. A. (1953). Notes on houseflies and blowflies in Malaya.—Bull. Inst. med. Res. Fed. Malaya 7, 1–26.Google ScholarPubMed
Sulaiman, S., Yunus, H. & Sohadi, R. (1987). Evaluation of some adhesives for collecting Musca domestica and Chrysomya megacephala adults or mosquito larvae in sticky traps.—Med. Vet. Entomol. 1, 273–278.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sulaiman, S., Sohadi, A. R., Yunus, H. & Iberahim, R. (1988). The role of some cyclorrhaphan flies as carriers of human helminths in Malaysia.—Med. Vet. Entomol. 2, 1–6.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sulaiman, S., Aziz, A. H., Yunus, H. & Sohadi, A. R. (1988). Isolations of enteropathogenic bacteria from some cyclorrhaphan flies in Malaysia.—Malays. Appl. Biol. 17, 129–133.Google Scholar