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Bedbugs in Relation to Transmission of Human Diseases: Review of the Literature

1963; Volume: 78; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4591852

2327-6258

George J. Burton,

Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies

THE possible role of bedbugs in transmission of human diseases has been the subject of many studies during the past 55 years (1).Most of these studies were made on either the cosmopolitan bedbug, Cimex lectularius Lin- naeus, or on Cimex hemiptenis Fabricius (C.rotundatus Signeret), which is known as the tropical, subtropical, or Indian bedbug.A few studies on transmission of Chagas disease were concerned with other species, such as Cimex (Leptocimex) boueti Joyeux, a tropical bedbug of Africa and South America which normally infests bats; Oeciacus {Cimex) hinvndinis (Jenyns), the European barn swallow bug; and Haematosiphon inodora (Duges), which in¬ fests poultry, the California condor, and the great horned cwl.Bedbugs have been suspected in the transmis¬ sion of 41 human diseases, the agents or causes of which coincide with 10 categories, as shown below.