Detection of pathogen foodborne disease bacteria Staphylococcus aureus from German Cockroach (Blattella germanica) in the hospital area

Abstract The German cockroach (Blattella germanica ) is a pest often found in apartments, houses, food-handling areas, hospitals, and healthcare facilities Indonesia. It searches for food dirty places such as trash cans, sewers, septic tanks. will feed on almost anything, including fecal matter humans. So, this habit causes the can act vector several pathogenic bacteria increases risk of various health problems, foodborne diseases. One that cause disease Staphylococcus aureus because these produce toxins intoxication food. So purpose study was to detect presence cockroaches’ body surface digestive tract. sample cockroaches collected by jar trap from hospital environment Purwokerto (Central Java, Indonesia). isolates were confirmed selective medium ensure isolated S. bacteria. results showed 26 successfully surface, 21 tract cockroach. From isolates, it 11.53% came cockroach, 14.28% bacterial . indicate be spread pathogen