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      <journal-title>African Journal of Cellular Pathology</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2449-0776</issn>      <publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5897/AJCPath2019.0022</article-id>
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        <article-title><![CDATA[A comparative study of cultural and molecular techniques for the identification of bacterial contaminants of cockroaches (Periplaneta americana)]]></article-title>
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        	          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>O.</surname>
            <given-names>D. Popoola</given-names>
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                    <name name-style="western">
            <surname>B.</surname>
            <given-names>T. Thomas</given-names>
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                    <name name-style="western">
            <surname>M.</surname>
            <given-names>O. Efuntoye</given-names>
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		<corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email xlink:type="simple">benthoa2013@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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        <year>2019</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
      	<day>31</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2019</year>
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      			<date date-type="received">
			<day>17</day>
			<month>04</month>
			<year>2019</year>
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						<date date-type="accepted">
			<day>17</day>
			<month>05</month>
			<year>2019</year>
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      <volume>11</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
	  	  <fpage>17</fpage>
	  <lpage>22</lpage>
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      <abstract><![CDATA[The increasing trends of insect associated bacterial infection in humans are severely hampered by disparaging number of bacteria obtained with the culture-based technique. This study therefore determined how the analysis of the 16S rDNA sequences would compare in terms of precision and reliability to the most adoptable culture-based technique. Results obtained depict enhanced accuracy of  molecular technique over the cultural method as only 249 (69%) of the total isolates were correctly identified by the cultural method to represent a total of 114 (31%)  discrepant species while 100% correct identification was observed with the molecular technique. The most predominant of these bacterial isolates from both the external surfaces and the gut environment was Escherichia coli 43 (20.8%) and 24 (15.5%) respectively. The Gram positive organisms isolated were Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Enterococcus faecalis with a prevalence rate of 8 (3.8%), 14 (6.7%), 8 (3.8%) and 9 (4.3%) from external surfaces and 2 (1.3%), 6 (3.9%), 2 (1.3%) and 7 (4.5%) from gut environment respectively. The least isolated organisms in the external surfaces were Serratia marscencens and Citrobacter werkmanii with a distribution rate of 3(1.4%) while Citrobacter freundii 2(1.3%) was the least isolated organism from cockroach gut environment. This study therefore showed that the molecular analysis of the 16S rDNA sequences is more efficient than culture-based technique for the identification of bacterial contaminants of cockroaches because occurrences of misidentification are very much abated by this method. 

	Key words: Bacterial contaminants, Cockroaches (Periplaneta americana), cultural technique, molecular technique.]]></abstract>
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