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Also known as bedbugs, Cimex lectularius
parasitic insects
Key facts
- Other names
- Cimicosis, bedbugs
- Specialty
- Family medicine , dermatology
- Symptoms
- None to prominent blisters , itchiness
- Usual onset
- Minutes to days after the bite
- Causes
- Cimex (primarily Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus )
- Risk factors
- Travel, second-hand furnishings
- Diagnostic method
- Based on finding bed bugs and symptoms
- Differential diagnosis
- Allergic reaction , scabies , dermatitis herpetiformis
- Treatment
- Symptomatic , bed bug eradication
- Medication
- Antihistamines , corticosteroids
- Frequency
- Relatively common
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- hematophage
- Image
- Bed bug, Cimex lectularius.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Cimex lectularius
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- Commons category
- Cimex lectularius
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Article · 中文
床蟲(Bed bugs),又稱臭蟲,是臭蟲屬(學名:Cimex)物種的通稱,是寄生性的昆蟲,吸取動物的血液為其唯一的覓食方式。溫帶臭蟲是本屬中最為人所知的物種,吸食人類的血液為生,其他物種則會吸食其他動物的血液,各物種常以某一類動物為主要宿主,例如主要寄生於蝙蝠。床蟲常出現於溫暖的住家中,特別是床上與其他用以睡眠的區域,其族群建立後就很難清除。它們多在夜間活躍,但不完全是夜行性,其吸血時通常不會被人發覺。床蟲的叮咬常會造成起疹、過敏、失眠與精神困擾為主,但不會傳播嚴重的傳染病。人類對於床蟲的認識已有千年之久,1940年代早期,床蟲幾乎在已開發國家中被撲滅,但1995年起又再次大量增加,近年來呈增加趨勢,可能是因對殺蟲劑產生、部分殺蟲劑被各國禁用、以及跨國旅行日益普遍所致。
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