Indeed,
scratching pruritic bites facilitates mechanical entry of
parasites contained in bedbug feces into bite sites.
Moreover, Latin American biotopes of the 2 bugs live in
proximity in the wild and around or in houses, and
contacts between the 2 insects are frequent, mostly in
rural areas or poor districts, where T. cruzi transmission
is frequent. Pertinently, T. cruzi has been detected in
wild bedbugs