The role of Musca domestica in transmission of Toxoplasma in Baghdad

Abstract

A total of 490 individuals adult of Musca domestica were collected from garbage of houses, local
markets and stables of animals in Baghdad for the period from March to October 2012, to iden fy the
oocyts of protozoa. The study showed two types of sporozoites, one was long, spindle, unineclate, other
are small, short, crescent – shaped. This study recorded for first time the presence of Toxoplasma in the
digestive tract of filth fly Musca domestica, the results of trophozoite and tachyzoit of Toxoplasma
revered to two suggestion: first, filth fly transmitted Toxoplasma, transracially, second, filth fly infected
with Toxoplasma as intermediate host.