Microbial Carriage of Cockroaches at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ghana

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tetteh Quarcoo, Patience B ^a   Donkor, Eric S ^a   Attah, Simon K ^a   Duedu, Kwabena O ^a   Afutu, Emmanuel ^a   Boamah, Isaac ^a   Olu Taiwo, Michael ^a   Anim Baidoo, Isaac ^a   Ayeh Kumi, Patrick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; cockroach; hookworm; Klebsiella pneumoniae; nosocomial; rotavirus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901313863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S12820     Document Type: Article

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