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Bed Bugs: Do They Transmit Diseases?

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Goddard, J. (2008). Bed Bugs: Do They Transmit Diseases?. In: Goddard, J. (eds) Infectious Diseases and Arthropods. Infectious Disease. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-400-5_8

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