As a 2012 paper put it, “With over 200 million bed bugs biting (and biting multiple times), and without any evidence of any disease resulting, the indications are that the risk of contracting an ...

Sequencing a genome is a bit like assembling a massive jigsaw puzzle, often with millions and millions of pieces. The key ...

A team of researchers led by Hidemasa Bono of Hiroshima University has sequenced the most complete insecticide-resistant bed bug genome to date and compared it to the genome of an insecticide ...

In addition, in rare cases, fleas can transmit diseases such as plague (Yersinia pestis) and typhus or parasites like tapeworms. Bed bug bites can also cause an allergic reaction. The affected ...

Scientists mapped near-gap-free and near-error-free genomes of a susceptible bed bug strain and a superstrain around 20,000 times more ...