Avian Mite Dermatitis: Observation of the Causative Mites and Clinical Findings / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

It has been well known that prutic skin diseases are very common among the chicken raisers. Authors visited three paultry farming area in Kyung Ki Province to observe the avian mite dermatitis among the workers and to collect the causative paultry mites during the period from March to September, 1982. At every paultry farming area, we chose two families to investigate every family member and to check the dermatitis correlated with the mite that we had collected from the samples of each house dust and hen-house dust. The result were summarized as follows; 1. Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini and Fanzago, 1877) was found in dust samples from two houses and two hen-houses. And Dermatophagoides species and Acarus siro (Linnaeus, 1758) were also collected from the other house and henhouse samples. 2. Three cases of avian mite dermatitis were found in one family, where O. syiviarum was collected in the dust samples from their house and hen-house.