Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
The following domiciliary cockroaches were collected from restaurants in five zones of Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory, Malaysia using IL glass beaker traps baited with ground mouse-pellets: Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) (n = 820), Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister (n = 46), Blattella germanica (Linnaeus) (n = 12504), Supella longipalpa (Fabricius) (n = 321), Symploce pallens Stephens (n = 29) and Neostylopyga rhombifolia (Stoll) (n = 5). The following bacteria were isolated from 10 cockroach specimens: Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp. pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp. rhinoscleromatis and Serratia liquefaciens from 5 B. germanica; Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. anitratus, Citrobacter diversus/amalonaticus, Escherichia vulneris and K.p. pneumoniae from 3 P brunnea; and Citrobacter freundii, Enterobacter agglomerans 4, Escherichia adecarboxylate, E. vulneris, K. p. pneumonia, K p. rhinoscleromatis and Proteus vulgeris from 2 P americana.
Keywords
Domiciliary cockroaches
Divisions
fac_med
Publication Title
Tropical Biomedicine
Volume
29
Issue
1
Additional Information
Jeffery, J. Sulaiman, S. Oothuman, P. Vellayan, S. Zainol-Ariffin, P. Paramaswaran, S. Razak, A. Muslimin, M. Kamil-Ali, O. B. Rohela, M. Abdul-Aziz, N. M.