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Actinomyces carneus (Rossi-Doria) Gasperini 
Disease.—Organism reported from a case of chronic bronchitis; 
pathogenic to rabbit and guinea pig (Dodge, 1935). 
Cockroach.—Blatta orientalis (Cao, 1898). 
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Trevisan 
Disease. —Gonorrhoea and other infections in man. 
Cockroach.—Periplaneta americana (Macfie, 1922). 
Spirochaeta crocidurae Leger (I) and Spirochaeta hispanica de Buen (II) 
Diseases——(1) Blood parasite of a shrew-mouse in Senegal; (II) 
cause of Spanish and Moroccan relapsing fever. 
Cockroaches, Tunisia(?) (Wollman, 1927; Wollman et al., 1928) : 
Cockroaches externally contaminated with the blood parasites were 
macerated and injected into peritoneum of a rat. No spirochaetes were 
found in the blood of this rat. 
The following cockroaches were examined for pathogenic bacterial 
infections, with negative results, by Eads et al. (1954) in Texas: 
Blatta orientalis, 54 insects in 15 pools from sewer manholes. 
Blattella germanica, 118 insects in 5 pools from food establishments. 
Periplaneta americana, 70 insects in 5 pools from food establish- 
ments. 
Supella supellectilium, 235 insects in 11 pools from food establish- 
ments. 
