Sentences with phrase «kissing bugs for»
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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Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan responsible for Chagas disease, bides its time in a kissing bug's gut.
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.
North America has so far been spared from this plague for a number of reasons: The 11 species of kissing bugs endemic to the U.S. South and Southwest tend to defecate after leaving their unwitting hosts, reducing the likelihood of spreading the parasite.
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A Chagas disease epidemic is not likely in North America, but kissing bug bites do cause severe allergic reactions for some victims
According to research published in PLoS ONE, Clinical Infectious Diseases and The American Journal of Medicine, during their spring and summer dispersal kissing bugs attracted to lights enter homes in the southwest and may feed on homeowners and pets for months, sometimes provoking allergic reactions.
For now the evidence is stronger that kissing bugs are a bigger Chagas threat in the U.S. Surveys of wild U.S. kissing bugs have begun to show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the insects can and do commonly feed on humans.
But I guarantee you that 99 percent of those who go to Bug thinking they're in for good, gooey fun with the babe from Kiss the Girls are going to riot in the aisles.
For example, mosquitoes pass on heartworms, while «kissing» or «assassin» bugs carry Chagas disease.