Bedbugs: Unwelcome Travel Companions

Tiny travel companions

Since the first modern humans left their birthplace in Eastern Africa and slowly spread to populate every inhabitable place on the planet, Homo sapiens has been a migratory animal. Over thousands of years, these travellers unknowingly carried excess baggage on their journeys: countless microbes in and on their bodies, which evolved along with their host. By applying the tools of modern genomics...

Unwelcome complement.

For decades, the complement system has been recognized as an effector arm of the innate immunity system that contributes to the destruction of tumor cells. However, recent studies have challenged this paradigm by demonstrating that a complement component, the anaphylatoxin C5a, promotes the growth of malignant tumors in a mouse model of cervical carcinoma. The effect of C5a on tumor growth was ...

Bedbugs and Infectious Diseases

Bedbugs are brown and flat hematophagous insects. The 2 cosmopolite species, Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus, feed on humans and/or domestic animals, and recent outbreaks have been reported in occidental countries. Site assessment for bedbug eradication is complex but can be assured, despite emerging insecticide resistance, by hiring a pest-control manager. The common dermatological pres...

Bedbugs as Pests of Poultry

Re Bedbugs and Their Destruction

Sik,?I am glad to note that Sub-Asst.-Surgeon Satkari Ganguli after trying turpentine on bedbugs writes his experiences in the October 1912 issue of this your esteemed journal, and passes his glowing opinion on its effectiveness in destroying them. This is as you know what I claimed in my article of the 28th August 1911 in the October 1911 issue of the journal, which was the first article I wro...