“…Cockroaches pose a concern in the hospital environment because they may serve as reservoirs and vectors for nosocomial pathogens. Microbial carriage of cockroaches in hospitals has been reported by several studies (Table 1) [52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62]. Generally, these studies seem to have focused on bacteria and, to some extent, parasites and fungi, while very little has been done on viruses.…”