Adapting and Evaluating a Rapid, Low-Cost Method to Enumerate Flies in the Household Setting.

ABSTRACT: Diarrhea is a leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age worldwide. Flies are important vectors of diarrheal pathogens in settings lacking networked sanitation services. There is no standardized method for measuring fly density in households; many methods are cumbersome and unvalidated. We adapted a rapid, low-cost fly enumeration technique previously developed for industrial settings, the Scudder fly grill, for field use in household settings. We evaluated its performance in comparison to a sticky tape fly trapping method at latrine and food preparation areas among households in rural Kenya. The grill method was more sensitive; it detected the presence of any flies at 80% (433/543) of sampling locations versus 64% (348/543) of locations by the sticky tape. We found poor co

SUBMITTER: Wolfe MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303052 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature