The present study was aimed to assess the bedbugs susceptibility to pyrethroid insecticides using molecular analysis. With the aid of pest control companies, adult bedbugs were collected from various places such as hotels, residential houses, and industrial buildings in seven cities highly crowded with domestic and foreign tourists in Iran from May 2016 to August 2017. Bedbugs ...

In his study of the epidemiology of typhus in the southern United States, published in 1926, Maxcy (1) came to a number of important conclusions, the most significant of which was that the epidemiological characteristics observed by him were at variance with the idea that the disease is kept alive by man to man transfer through lice. He suggested at that time, on the basis of case studies, that...

This case illustrates skin lesions in a traveler staying in a hotel bed infested with tics. Although infestation of hotels with bedbugs belonging to the Cimex genus is a growing problem worldwide, tick infestation has never been reported before.