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Latest Infectious Disease News<\/h3>\n

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TUESDAY, July 28, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n

Bedbugs<\/a> do more than infest your sheets and pillows: New research shows they also alter what germs hover in the dust inside your home.<\/p>\n

“There is a link between the microbiome of bedbugs<\/a> and the microbiome of household dust in bedbug<\/a>-infested homes,” said study author Coby Schal, a professor of entomology at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n

“No previous study has reported the impact of chronic pest infestations on indoor microbial diversity,” Schal noted in a university news release.<\/p>\n

In the study, scientists studied the bacterial communities (microbiomes) of dust in 19 units of an apartment complex in Raleigh, N.C., that were infested with bedbugs<\/a>, and compared them with 11 units that had no bedbugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seven of the 19 infested units were treated with heat to eliminate the bedbugs<\/a> after the initial samples were collected, and the 12 other units were treated after one month. All 19 infested units were studied for four months.<\/p>\n

The researchers found that homes with bedbug<\/a> infestations had different dust microbiomes than those that weren’t infested. But once bedbugs<\/a> were eliminated, dust microbiomes in previously infested homes became more similar to those of homes that never had bedbug infestations.<\/p>\n

The study was published recently in the journal Science of the Total Environment<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“The elimination of the bedbugs<\/a> resulted in gradual shifts in the home microbial communities toward those of uninfested homes,” said study co-author Madhavi Kakumanu, a research scholar in Schal’s lab.<\/p>\n

“This paper is the first experimental demonstration that eliminating an indoor pest alters the indoor microbiome toward that of uninfested homes,” Kakumanu said in the news release.<\/p>\n

“Bedbug infestations are problematic in many homes in both developed and developing countries,” Schal said. “There is a critical need to investigate infestations from the perspective of indoor environmental quality, and this paper represents a first step toward this end.”<\/p>\n

— Robert Preidt<\/p>\n

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\n What are bed bugs?<\/span>
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\n SOURCE: North Carolina State University, news release, July 15, 2020 \n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n