{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Robinson A"],"funding":["Medical Research Council","Wellcome Trust","Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council"],"pagination":["e0007719"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7069642"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The putative vector of trachoma, Musca sorbens, prefers to lay its eggs on human faeces on the ground. This study sought to determine whether M. sorbens females were attracted to volatile odours from human faeces in preference to odours from the faeces of other animals, and to determine whether specific volatile semiochemicals mediate selection of the faeces. Traps baited with the faeces of humans and local domestic animals were used to catch flies at two trachoma-endemic locations in The Gambia and one in Ethiopia. At all locations, traps baited with faeces caught more female M. sorbens than control traps baited with soil, and human faeces was the most successful bait compared with soil (mean rate ratios 44.40, 61.40, 10.50 [P<0.001]; 8.17 for child faeces [P = 0.004]). Odours from human "],"journal":["PLoS neglected tropical diseases"],"pubmed_title":["Responses of the putative trachoma vector, Musca sorbens, to volatile semiochemicals from human faeces."],"pmcid":["PMC7069642"],"funding_grant_id":["BBS/OS/CP/000001","MR/R010161/1","MC_UP_A900_1119","206275/Z/17/Z"],"pubmed_authors":["Woodcock CM","Bristow J","Caulfield JC","Chen-Hussey V","Makalo P","Last A","Holl MV","D'Alessandro U","Dewhirst S","Bailey RL","Logan JG","Pickett JA","Lindsay SW","Robinson A","Alemayehu W","Burton MJ","Birkett MA","Sarah V","Macleod D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Responses of the putative trachoma vector, Musca sorbens, to volatile semiochemicals from human faeces.","description":"The putative vector of trachoma, Musca sorbens, prefers to lay its eggs on human faeces on the ground. This study sought to determine whether M. sorbens females were attracted to volatile odours from human faeces in preference to odours from the faeces of other animals, and to determine whether specific volatile semiochemicals mediate selection of the faeces. Traps baited with the faeces of humans and local domestic animals were used to catch flies at two trachoma-endemic locations in The Gambia and one in Ethiopia. At all locations, traps baited with faeces caught more female M. sorbens than control traps baited with soil, and human faeces was the most successful bait compared with soil (mean rate ratios 44.40, 61.40, 10.50 [P<0.001]; 8.17 for child faeces [P = 0.004]). Odours from human ","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Mar","modification":"2025-05-29T20:28:52.658Z","creation":"2025-05-29T20:28:52.658Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7069642","cross_references":{"pubmed":["32126087"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pntd.0007719"]}}