TABLE 3.
Characteristics of fly samples
| Fly scientific name | Fly common name |
nb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broiler farm |
Laying-hen farm |
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| Broilers present |
At cleaning |
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| Flies | Pools | Flies | Pools | Flies | Pools | ||
| Musca domestica | Common housefly | 9 | 2 (3–6) | 45 | 6 (5–8) | ||
| Fannnia canicularis | Lesser housefly | 9 | 4 (1–4) | 11 | 2 (4–7) | ||
| Lucilia spp.a | Blow fly | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 (3) | ||
| Stomoxys calcitrans | Stable fly | 6 | 2 (2–4) | ||||
| Total | 10 | 5 | 26 | 6 | 51 | 8 | |
a
Flies were not identified to species level.
b
Indicated in parentheses are the minimum and maximum number of flies per pool.