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Biologists Discover What Makes Bed Bugs Uniquely Hard to Kill With Insecticides

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Researchers in Japan have sequenced the most complete insecticide-resistant bed bug genome to date.

They compared it to the genome of a non-resistant (non-resistant) bed bug.

The researchers identified hundreds of mutations linked to insecticide resistance in the resistant strain.

Bed bugs are not known to transmit diseases to humans, but bites can cause itching and loss of sleep.

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