German cockroaches (Blattella germanica L.) as a potential source of pathogens causing nosocomial infections

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 55-60

  Gliniewicz, Aleksandra ^a   Czajka, E ^a   Laudy, A E ^b   Kochman, M ^a   Grzegorzak, K ^a   Ziołkowska K ^a   Sawicka, B ^a   Stypulkowska Misiurewicz, H ^a   Pancer, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

German cockroaches; Nosocomial infections; Transmission of bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GLUCOPROTAMINE; METICILLIN; PROTAMINE; TROCLOSENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BLATTA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; COCKROACH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTA; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

EID: 0038511104     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03012001009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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