Sentences with phrase «called kissing bugs»
The disease is spread by triatomines, also called kissing bugs for their tendency to bite on the lips to suck blood.
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A team at Yale University, Rockefeller University in New York City, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta engineered a strain of the bacterium Rhodococcus rhodnii, which lives in the gut of the kissing bug, to produce an insect antibiotic called cecropin A.
It's carried by so - called «kissing bugs», which bite you round the mouth while you sleep and infects you with the Chagas disease creepy parasite: the American trypanosome.
They're called «kissing bugs» because they «kiss» you with their bite.
They're not called «kissing bugs» because they bite around the mouth.