Pathogens of Medical Importance Identified in Hospital-Collected Cockroaches: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Cockroaches serve as mechanical vectors for medically important pathogens, and their presence in hospitals is a common occurrence. This review summarizes the pathogens carried by cockroaches collected in hospitals around the world during the period 2000-2024 and focuses on their antibiotic resistance mechanisms and potential impact on the public health system. The conventional techniques are most used to identify microorganisms and determine antibiotic resistance, but there are few studies that use molecular techniques for bacterial identification and resistance mechanism detection. The species that appear most frequently in the selected articles were Escherichia coli (22 articles) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (11 articles). Regarding antibiotic resistance, this review describe

SUBMITTER: Crespo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11858024 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature