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- Title
The medical importance of cockroaches.
- Authors
Baumholtz, Michael A.; Parish, Lawrence Charles; Witkowski, Joseph A.; Nutting, William B.
- Abstract
This article focuses on medical importance of cockroaches. Cockroaches have great significance for the dermatologic community, if only because of the many reports and claims implicating the cockroach as a vector for human disease. The current view of the roach appears to have come full circle from being an object of man's longing to an object of most people's loathing. Roaches have been proven to contribute to and actually cause asthmatic reactions in humans. The literature includes both clinical and basic science research, although no study has conclusively demonstrated disease transfer from one organism to a human with the cockroach as the vector.
- Publication
International Journal of Dermatology, 1997, Vol 36, Issue 2, p90
- ISSN
0011-9059
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-4362.1997.00077.x