(n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand.
(2) Everybody is frustrated, nobody is getting enough sleep due to the bedbugs.
(3) In KwaZulu, South Africa, a correlation exists between the percentage of C. lectularius females which are interspecifically mated and the predominance of C. hemipterus in mixed domestic infestations of these bedbugs.
(4) A hut infested by both bedbug species showed a significant change to a higher proportion of C. hemipterus in the adult population over 2 months.
(5) Both bedbugs and headlice were clustered within compounds.
(6) Bedbugs of the species Cimex hemipterus (F) were collected on four separate occasions from the bedding in the huts of village dwellers in Senegal, West Africa.
(7) The prevalence of bedbugs (Cimex hemipterus L.), chicken ticks (Argas persicus Oken) and headlice (Pediculus capitis De Geer) was surveyed in a rural area of The Gambia.
(8) At no time was antigen detected in eggs or feces of any species tested, but juvenile bedbugs fed HBsAg when in the fourth or fifth instar stage still contained antigen after molting.
(9) One of five samples of engorged adult bedbugs from the laboratory animal farm was positive.
(10) It was determined that the full blood-meal of a female bedbug contained 0.09 x 10(5) tissue culture infectious doses (TCID) of virus and a male 0.07 x 10(5) TCID, while partial meals taken when feeding was interrupted contained 0.013 x 10(5) TCID and 0.015 x 10(5) TCID for female and male bugs, respectively.
(11) Mechanical transmission of HIV by bedbugs could not be demonstrated in an in vitro model.
(12) Bedbug (Cimex lectularius) samples adult and nymphs either engorged or starved from Central Security Forces sleeping wards, laboratory animal house and control samples from laboratory reared colonies were ground and subjected to ELISA test of hepatitis B surface antigen together with 276 serum samples from the recruits slept in those wards.
(13) Large numbers of virus particles were identified by electron microscopy in the epithelial cells of the ventriculus of the bedbug, Cimex lectularius.
(14) aegypti formosus and probably other mosquitoes are not mechanical vectors of HIV and that such transmission is also unlikely to occur in bedbugs under natural conditions.
(15) About 4 months later it was found that bedbugs and chicken ticks had disappeared from homes in which the bednets had been impregnated with permethrin.
(16) It is concluded that, while mechanical transmission of HBV is most unlikely after a 10-13-day interval between feedings in bedbugs and tampans, it is still possible that mechanical transmission between humans might occur during interrupted feeds.
(17) Cimex lectularius or bedbug is a well known house insect and share in the constitution of house dust.
(18) It’s true: as soon as you disembark from the plane at JFK airport, even before you go through that hotbed of warmth and friendliness that is Homeland Security, you are obligated to bow down to a giant bedbug and tip it 20%.
(19) A total of 1 368 bedbugs of the species Cimex lectularius L were collected mainly from huts in villages or on farms at 6 localities in the northern Transvaal.
(20) HIV did not replicate in either intraabdominally inoculated bedbugs or intrathoracically inoculated mosquitoes (Toxorhynchites amboinensis).
Cimex
Definition:
(n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand.
(2) The percentage of positive skin reactions to 1st Cimex antigen was 37.1 as compared to 9.1 in controls The percentage of positivity to Cimex 2nd antigen was 50.1 as compared to 18.2 in controls.
(3) Also precipitin test using both Cimex extracts were used.
(4) Bedbugs of the species Cimex hemipterus (F) were collected on four separate occasions from the bedding in the huts of village dwellers in Senegal, West Africa.
(5) Drepanotrema cimex was infected by a furcocercaria with characteristics of C. caratinguensis and by C. macrogranulosa.
(6) The prevalence of bedbugs (Cimex hemipterus L.), chicken ticks (Argas persicus Oken) and headlice (Pediculus capitis De Geer) was surveyed in a rural area of The Gambia.
(7) These bats were negative as judged by xenodiagnosis using laboratory-reared Cimex.
(8) Bedbug (Cimex lectularius) samples adult and nymphs either engorged or starved from Central Security Forces sleeping wards, laboratory animal house and control samples from laboratory reared colonies were ground and subjected to ELISA test of hepatitis B surface antigen together with 276 serum samples from the recruits slept in those wards.
(9) Large numbers of virus particles were identified by electron microscopy in the epithelial cells of the ventriculus of the bedbug, Cimex lectularius.
(10) Cimex lectularius or bedbug is a well known house insect and share in the constitution of house dust.
(11) A total of 1 368 bedbugs of the species Cimex lectularius L were collected mainly from huts in villages or on farms at 6 localities in the northern Transvaal.
(12) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was detected in bedbugs (Cimex hemipterus) up to 8 d after oral exposure to highly concentrated virus in blood meals, but no virus replication was observed.
(13) The preventive effect of vitamin A acid (13-cis-retinoic acid) on skin papillomas induced in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) by the bite of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) pre-irradiated with gamma rays was investigated.
(14) Two species of anthropophilic bedbugs, Cimex lectularius and C. hemipterus, infest dwellings in KwaZulu, the known range of the latter extending to 28 degrees 15'S.
(15) Previously it was shown that glucose and trehalose are present in the hemolymph of Cimex lectularious L. and that the active bed bug sperm can utilize these sugars oxidatively.
(16) Between 1983 and 1988 the frequency of Cimex hemipterus infestations relative to C. lectularius increased near the Mozambique border and around main roads in the Nkundusi-Mfekayi area of South Africa (28 degrees 15'S; 30 degrees 23' E).
(17) Of interest was the significant relation between the positivity in asthmatic patients to the antigens of Cimex abdominal extract and cotton dust extract.
(18) Development took place in laboratory-reared Cimex pipistrelli and Cimex lectularius.
(19) In the Cimex sperm, transaminase activity is limited, with L-alanine the only amino acid involved in transamination.
(20) Studies of eight localities on the Island of Santa Catarina revealed the presence of three species of the molluscan family Planorbidae: Biomphalaria tenagophila, Drepanotrema cimex and Biomphalaria oligoza, the first one being naturally infected by Cercaria ocellifera, a furcocercaria with morphological characteristics of Cercaria caratinguensis, and by an unknown furcocercaria.