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 variou...

In Benin, cockroaches are infesting urban environments and developing resistance to commonly used insecticides. Therefore, alternative insecticides is important for management. The present study aims test the efficacy of a gel bait formulation-2.15% imidacloprid against common cockroach Periplaneta americana under laboratory field conditions in commune Abomey-Calavi. Dead alive were compared be...

In the present study we assessed presence of bacteria pathogen fromcockroaches (Periplaneta americana) in different household and their surroundingsin Benin City, Nigeria. A total seventy-five cockroaches americana)were collected randomly from 10 between June July, 2013.Standard culture-based procedures were used for isolation identification ofthe bacterial pathogen. The was isolated externalsu...

aims: considering the medical significance of cockroaches as insect vectors of food toxicities, and triggering allergy in respiratory system and skin, this survey was conducted to study the frequency of infestation and their effective factors in shahin shahr, iran. materials & methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in 2010 in shahin shahr, isfahan, iran. data gathering ...

Swine production is an important component of North Carolina’s agricultural economy. Cockroaches have long been recognized as important pests in swine production and severe infestations may contribute significantly to disease maintenance and transmission. However, management of cockroach populations is severely constrained by many factors including: cultural and production practices used at the...

Cockroaches have great significance for the dermatologic finger nails, and other hard parts of the soles of the feet and palms of the hands, nibbled by [the roaches].’’3 Other community, if only because of the many reports and claims implicating the cockroach as a vector for human disease. reports, dating back to the early 1700s and continuing through the 1900s, confirm that roaches will bite h...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of allergy to cockroaches (Blattella germanica and Periplaneta americana) in asthmatic and non-asthmatic children and to determine the degree of agreement between the skin prick test and serum specific IgE levels, as well as to establish the relationship between cockroach allergy and total IgE levels. METHODS A case-control study involving 76 asthmatic and ...