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Descriptor English: Houseflies
Descriptor Spanish: Moscas Domésticas
Descriptor moscas domésticas
Scope note: Moscas de la especie Musca domestica (familia MUSCIDAE), que infestan los hogares en todo el mundo y actúan con frecuencia como portadores de organismos patógenos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Moscas Domésticas
Descriptor French: Mouches domestiques
Entry term(s): Housefly
Musca domestica
Musca domesticas
domesticas, Musca
Tree number(s): B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.642.470
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006793
Scope note: Flies of the species Musca domestica (family MUSCIDAE), which infest human habitations throughout the world and often act as carriers of pathogenic organisms.
Annotation: /microbiol /parasitol /virol permitted; do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111; note entry term MUSCA DOMESTICA but other Musca species and genera of family Muscidae go under MUSCIDAE
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
DeCS ID: 6947
Unique ID: D006793
NLM Classification: QX 505
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/07/11
Houseflies - Preferred
Concept UI M0010626
Scope note Flies of the species Musca domestica (family MUSCIDAE), which infest human habitations throughout the world and often act as carriers of pathogenic organisms.
Preferred term Houseflies
Entry term(s) Housefly
Musca domestica
Musca domesticas
domesticas, Musca



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