The housefly Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) as a paratenic host in the city of Bom Jesus - Piauí, Brazil/A mosca doméstica Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) como hospedeiro paratênico na cidade de Bom Jesus - Piauí, Brasil

• Published in: Comunicata Scientiae 2014-07, Vol.5 (3), p.349
• Main Authors: Lima, Mauro Sergio Cruz Souza, Soares, Maria Regiane Araújo, Pederassi, Jonas, Aguia, Brisa Costa Guimarães, Pereira, Carlos Alberto Sanches
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2179-9079; 2177-5133

The common housefly Musca domestica L. is of great importance to public health because it is a mechanical vector of pathogens, and acts as an agricultural blight affecting the productivity of chicken and cattle farming. In Bom Jesus, Piaui, Brazil, the proliferation of this vector was intensified with the absence of regulated slaughterhouses and environmental changes caused by disorder and rapid agricultural expansion. In order to isolate eggs and cysts/oocysts of enteric parasites in adults of M. domestica, this study used the "jug-trap" method from October 2008 to October 2009 to capture the flies. In the ecological analysis, the Concentration of Relative Dominance was used as well as the Bodenheimer's Constancy. In 96 collections, 1180 specimens of M. domestica were captured, from which five morphospecies of protozoans and five morphospecies of helminths were isolated. The role of the housefly as a potential mechanical transporter of potentially pathogenic enteric parasite to humans in environments from Piaui city, Brazil is confirmed.