title: Microbial organisms carried by brown-banded cockroaches in relation to their spatial distribution in a hospital.
abstract: A simultaneous study of cockroach (Supella supellectilium) distribution and of associated carried bacterial flora has been made in the main hospital in Rennes (France). Wild cockroaches carry a high number of bacterial species that can be related to the normal environmental flora and a contaminant flora acquired from particular environments. The diversity of carried bacterial species reveals a proximity factor between continguous floors of the building which leads us to suppose that cockroaches are able to forage from one floor to the other.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Hygiène Hospitalière, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Rennes-Pontchaillou.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Le Guyader
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rivault
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chaperon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000382:microbiology*; D006757:Hospital Units; D006761:Hospitals