P. americana and B. germanica can move stilly at night
among hospital sections, patients’ places, and food-handling
locations, mostly via cracks in walls, and their ability to
transport of multidrug resistant infectious agents is a major
concern for many health workers. In studies on isolated
bacteria from hospital cockroaches, it has been shown
that they could act as potential vectors of drug resistant
bacteria[14]. They are potential to transmit some food-borne
pathogens. They may thus spread some multidrug resistant
bacteria at hospitals and food preparation and distribution
centers. Antibiotics susceptibility of bacteria associated
with hospital cockroaches thus possesses an increasingly
significant challenge to health-associated systems.