OCCURRENCE AND SPECIES COMPOSITION OF THE DOMESTIC MITES IN SIX EGYPTIAN GOVERNORATES | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Article 30, Volume 50, Issue 3, December 2020, Pages 712-718 PDF (1.01 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2020.131120 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ASMAA M. AMMAR1; ELHAM A. EL ZAYYAT2; AMIRA E. KHAYYAL1; NOHA A. ELLEBOUDY1 | ||
| 1Department of Medical Parasitology | ||
| 2Faculty of Medicine | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Domestic mites, the combined group of household-living storage mites and pyroglyphid housedust mites, belong to subclass Acari. Identifying mites to species level help to improve the management of their allergies as they produce species-specific allergens. Knowledge of the impact of the diverse and changing ecological conditions in the home environment is useful in developing strategies to avoid the development and growth of large populations of domestic allergic mites. This study identified domestic mite’s species in six Egyptian Governorates. The dust samples were collected from the HDM allergic patients for identification and seasonal distribution. From 120 samples, seven species were identified: Dermatophagoides farinae (69.4%), D. pteronyssinus (55.5%), Tyrophagus spp. (38.8%), Blomia tropicalis (30.5%), Cheyletus spp. (13.8%), Euroglyphus maynei (5.5%), and Tarsonemus spp. (5.5%). The highest positive samples were in Qalyobia Governorate (73.7%) and lowest in Cairo Governorate (33.3%). Highest number of mites was in spring and autumn seasons, and D. farinae was the commonest one. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Egypt; Dermatophagoides; Tyrophagus; Blomia; and seasonal variation | ||
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