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Ectoparasites: Mites Infestation

External parasites, particularly mites belonging to families such as Dermanyssidae, Macronyssidae, and Trombiculidae, pose a significant threat to poultry production worldwide. These pests, including the poultry red mite (PRM), northern fowl mite, tropical fowl mite, and turkey chigger, not only compromise the health and welfare of poultry but also ...
Jayalakshmi Jaliparthi, Poojasree Alli
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Do spider mite‐infested plants and spider mite trails attract predatory mites?

Ecological Research, 2009
Abstract We questioned the well‐accepted concept that spider mite‐infested plants attract predatory mites from a distance. This idea is based on the preference demonstrated by predatory mites such as Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias‐Henriot (Acari: Phytoseiidae) for volatiles ...
Shuichi Yano, Masahiro Osakabe
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Infestation with Cheyletiellid Mites

1984
Parasite infestation of domestic pets is becoming increasingly recognised as a source of human skin disease. Cheyletiellid mites are the commonest such parasites at present. They were first reported as attacking man by Lomholt (1918) in Copenhagen on the owners of infested cats.
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Mite-borne infections and infestations

2006
Scabies Scabies is an intensely pruritic and highly contagious infestation of the skin caused by the mite, Sarcoptes scabiei . It lives its entire life on the human host. A variant is canine scabies, in which humans become infected from pets, mainly dogs. Canine scabies (i.e., mange) causes patchy loss of hair and itching in affected pets.
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Infestation with Gamasid Mites

1984
Attacks on man by members of the family Gamasidae (suborder Mesostigmata) have been recorded on a worldwide basis. They not only cause irritating skin eruptions but are also known or suspected vectors of several rickettsial and viral diseases (Table 17.1). Hirst (1922) enumerated five species which attacked humans. The nomenclature of this group in the
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Human infestation by Ophionyssus natricis snake mite

British Journal of Dermatology, 1975
A family presented with a papular vesiculo-bullous eruption of the skin, found to be caused by the snake mite, Ophionyssus natricis (Cervais, 1844). A pet python was the primary host. Treatment of the animal and its environment led to clearance of the human skin lesions.
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Scabies And Other Mite Infestations

1998
Abstract Species of mites of animals and birds are considered which affect man either directly by causing primary irritation, hypersensitivity reactions, etc. or as vectors of diseases such as scrub typhus. The most important genera of mites in the two categories are Sarcoptes and Leptotrombidium.
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Infestation with Trombiculid Mite Larvae

1984
Harvest mites are the larvae of trombiculid mites (see Table 22.1 for other common names). They have been a known cause of skin irritation, often very severe, for a long time and have a worldwide distribution. The first species to be identified, now called Neotrombicula autumnalis, was described in 1790 by Shaw.
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Application of grey systems in predicting the degree of cotton spider mite infestations

Grey Systems Theory and Application, 2017
Shouhui Wang, Jianguo Dai, Qingzhan Zhao, Meina Cui   +3 more
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Mite infestations other than scabies.

Seminars in dermatology, 1993
Scabies is clearly the primary medical problem involving mites. However, regionally, there is a broad variety of other dermatoses associated with mite exposure, which in some areas vastly exceed the incidence of scabies. Also, scabies is characterized by a cyclical occurrence that is unusual in other mite infestations and mite-associated dermatoses ...
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