(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).
Insect
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.