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Influence of Frequently Used Chemical Insecticides on Mycoflora Carried by Common Housefly, Musca domestica L.

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The housefly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), is a major medical and veterinary insect pest. It serves as a vector of many pathogenic microorganisms causing spoilage of food and diseases in human and animals. Use of chemical insecticides is adapted as a principal tool to manage housefly. Insecticides have many unforeseen ecological consequences including effects on non-target organisms. In the present study, we have assessed the effects of 10 different synthetic insecticides on the growth of mycoflora associated with the external body of the housefly by using poison food technique. Our results reveled that all synthetic insecticides enhanced the growth. Surprisingly, in most of the cases, mycelial growth of fungi was significantly increased at high concentration as compared with lower concentration. This study provides useful information about the dangerous effects of synthetic insecticides on environment by increasing the spread of various non-target pathogenic, mycotoxigenic, and food spoiling fungi, carried by houseflies.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Sobia Chohan, Shazia Akram, Anam Tariq & Muhammad Abid

  2. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Rizwan Mustafa Shah, Muhammad Binyameen & Sarfraz Ali Shad

  3. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, Prague 6, 165 21, Suchdol, Czech Republic

    Muhammad Binyameen

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Chohan, S., Akram, S., Tariq, A. et al. Influence of Frequently Used Chemical Insecticides on Mycoflora Carried by Common Housefly, Musca domestica L.. Int Microbiol 21, 121–128 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-018-0007-0

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