The First Report of Drug Resistant Bacteria Isolated from the Brown-Banded Cockroach, Supella longipalpa, in Ahvaz, South-western Iran.

• Main Authors: Babak Vazirianzadeh (Author), Rouhullah Dehghani (Author), Manijeh Mehdinejad (Author), Mona Sharififard (Author), Nersi Nasirabadi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The brown-banded cockroach, Supella longipalpa is known as a carrier of pathogenic bacteria in urban environments, but its role is not well documented regarding the carriage of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacte- ria in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the resistance bacte...