Cockroaches and flies in mechanical transmission of medical important parasites in Khaldyia Village, el-Fayoum, Governorate, Egypt

Abstract EN

The role of non-blood sucking insects in dissemination of human parasites was investigated in Khaldyia Village, Al–Fayoum Governorate over during the summer of 2011.

A total of 278 American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), and 508 house flies Musca domestica var.

vicina were collected.

The insects were collected indoors and outdoors.

Flies were abundant in defecation areas and around houses.

The recovered zoonotic parasites identified were cysts of Entamoeba histolytica Cryptosporidium parvum and Balantidium coli, and eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides, Anchylostoma deodunale, Enterobius vermicularis, and Trichuris trichura as well as larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis.