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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2004, p. 3742-3744, Vol. 70, No. 6
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3742-3744.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia Recovered from Flies on a Cattle Farm and in a Landfill

Beata Szostakowska,1 Wieslawa Kruminis-Lozowska,1 Maria Racewicz,1 Ronald Knight,2 Leena Tamang,2 Przemyslaw Myjak,1 and Thaddeus K. Graczyk2*

Department of Tropical Parasitology, Interfaculty Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland,1 The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 212052

Received 1 December 2003/ Accepted 4 March 2004

Filth flies associated with a cattle barn and a municipal landfill were tested positive by combined immunofluorescent antibody and fluorescent in situ hybridization for Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia on their exoskeletons and in their guts. More pathogens were carried by flies from the cattle barn than from the landfill; 81% of C. parvum and 84% of G. lamblia pathogens were presumptively viable.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205. Phone: (410) 614-4984. Fax: (410) 955-0105. E-mail: tgraczyk{at}jhsph.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2004, p. 3742-3744, Vol. 70, No. 6
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3742-3744.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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