title: Survivability of Salmonella paratyphi B var Java on experimentally infected cockroaches.
abstract: Cockroaches are inhabitant of sewers and frequent visitors of kitchen and stores in the night to feed on left over. It is liable to disseminate a number of pathogens by contaminating kitchen surface, feeding vessels and food items left open. Salmonella paratyphi B var Java a common pathogen of man and animal was used in the study to evaluate its survival and excretion in cockroaches. The host when fed on semisolid feed containing 1 x 10(7) CFU of S. paratyphi B var Java g-1, it was found that the pathogen was eliminated earlier from the live than euthanized cockroaches.
authors.affiliation: Division of Veterinary Public Health, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar.
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Kulshreshtha
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D007303:Insect Vectors; D010284:Paratyphoid Fever / Q000635:transmission*; D012484:Salmonella paratyphi B / Q000302:isolation & purification*