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KMID : 0369319930130030334
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Allergy
1993 Volume.13 No. 3 p.334 ~ p.341
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Distribution of cockroaches in Korea
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권순완
오신근/윤운기/김성원/이용석/김광호/김명진/김정근/김대식
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Abstract
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Studies on the infestation rate and population density of cockroaches have been investigated in Seoul, Pusan and Junbuk district for one month in May 1992.
The sampling of the cockroaches in the study were conducted in the kitchens, bedrooms, floors, and toilets in huses of 73 Allergic patients. Allergic patients who lived in Seoul, Pusan, and Junbuk district were selected. A sticky trap were used
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attract cockroaches.
@ES The results are summerized as follows:
@EN 1) The cockroaches were collected in 58 houses out of a total 73 houses. This corresponds to a 78.1% percent infestation rate of cockroaches. The average number of cockroaches collected per house was 22.8. B. germanica was the most Common
species,
showing81.2 percent of the collected cockroaches, followed by P.japonica(9.1%), P.fuligionsa(4.8%), and P americana(4.5%).
2) P. joponica were collected almost uniformly in those three districts, but P. fuliginosa and P. americana were mainly collected in the Pusan district.
3) Houses in poor sanitation and those with an installed central heating system showed higher infestation rates.
4) The average number of cockroaches collected in patients houses whose residents showed positive results to allergy skin test were 32.4. This number was significantly higher than that of cockroaches collected in the houses negative allergy skin
test
patients, where. 18.2 was the average number of cockroaches.
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