Cockroaches from urban human dwellings: Isolation of bacterial pathogens and control

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 218-222

  Vythilingam, I ^a   Jeffery, J ^b   Oothuman, P ^b   Abdul Razak, A R ^c   Sulaiman, A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; COCKROACH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COCKROACHES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0031085431     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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