Carriage by the German cockroach (Blattella germanica) of multiple-antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are potentially pathogenic to humans, in hospitals and households in Tripoli, Libya

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-62

  Elgderi, R M ^a   Ghenghesh, K S ^b   Berbash, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER; COCKROACH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENTEROBACTER; HOSPITAL; HOUSEHOLD; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; KLEBSIELLA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SERRATIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BLATTELLIDAE; CITROBACTER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALS; HOUSING; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA; LIBYA; PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

AEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; CITROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA; PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 31344465662     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X78463     Document Type: Article

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