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Aerobic culturable bacteria and suspected coliforms (SC) were enumerated from fly homogenate cultured on nonselective (tryptic soy agar) and selective (violet-red bile agar VRBA) media, respectively. Unique morphotypes of SC isolates were screened for tetracycline resistance and tested for resistance to 4 additional antibiotics to identify multi-drug resistant (MDR) isolates. Female house flies carried greater abundances of both culturable bacteria and SC than male flies. Abiotic factors such as ambient and soil temperatures correlated with culturable bacteria and SC abundances in flies, but farm type correlated only with SC abundance and trends of resistance phenotypes observed in SC isolates. Male and female flies from both farm types carried one or more AMR and MDR SC isolates (73.02% AMR and 31.09% MDR). The majority of AMR and MDR bacteria were Escherichia\/Shigella sp., which possessed the widest range of phenotypic resistance variability found in our study. 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