| Literature DB >> 4571613 |
N R Burgess, S N McDermott, J Whiting.
Abstract
Methods of maintaining and feeding and of infecting cockroaches with pathogenic organisms were investigated.Cockroaches fed on known concentrations of Escherichia coli O119, Esch. coli O1, Alkalescens Dispar O group 2 and Shigella dysenteriae 1 (Shiga's Bacillus) were maintained in Petri dishes. The effect of various diets on the survival of these organisms within the hind-gut and faeces was observed. With a ;normal' diet of gruel Esch. coli O119 was isolated for up to 20 days, Esch. coli O1 for 17 days and ADO 2 for 15 days. Sh. dysenteriae 1 was isolated only sporadically to the third day.Entities:
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Year: 1973 PMID: 4571613 PMCID: PMC2130448 DOI: 10.1017/s0022172400046167
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hyg (Lond) ISSN: 0022-1724