Molecular characterization of adenovirus causing acute respiratory disease in Malaysia from 2003 to 2011

Abstract

The house fly Musca domestica (L.) is a cosmopolitan species and its synanthrophic behavior of breeding in animal manure; human excreta, garbage and animal bedding have evolved the house fly to live in association with man (Thaddeus et al., 2001). House flies are a nuisance and mechanically transport a host of diseases to human such as trachoma, cholera, anthrax, diphtheria, tuberculosis and leprosy by food contamination due to their behavioral patterns of ovipositing and feeding on decaying matter, human excrement and animal manure (Lane and Crosskey, 1993).