Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite

Ophionyssus natricis is a purely blood sucking parasite of snakes and of worldwide distribution. Infected snakes often exhibit lethargy, pruritus, crusting dermatitis, and behavioral changes. Ophionyssus natricis can also attack humans, causing popular vesiculo-bullous eruption of the skin. A 29 yea...

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Autores principales: AMANATFARD, Emad, YOUSSEFI, Mohammad Reza, BARIMANI, Alireza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014
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Medical Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759743
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description Ophionyssus natricis is a purely blood sucking parasite of snakes and of worldwide distribution. Infected snakes often exhibit lethargy, pruritus, crusting dermatitis, and behavioral changes. Ophionyssus natricis can also attack humans, causing popular vesiculo-bullous eruption of the skin. A 29 years old man working in zoo, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran, presented itchy papullar eruption of the skin. He had noticed small insects fixed on his skin and large numbers of these same insects on a python and its cage in the zoo. Regarding totheir morphological characteristics they were diagnosed as O. natricis (Geravis, 1844), a snake mite. It is the first report of O. natricis from Iran.
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spelling pubmed-43451012015-03-10 Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite AMANATFARD, Emad YOUSSEFI, Mohammad Reza BARIMANI, Alireza Iran J Parasitol Medical Sciences Ophionyssus natricis is a purely blood sucking parasite of snakes and of worldwide distribution. Infected snakes often exhibit lethargy, pruritus, crusting dermatitis, and behavioral changes. Ophionyssus natricis can also attack humans, causing popular vesiculo-bullous eruption of the skin. A 29 years old man working in zoo, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran, presented itchy papullar eruption of the skin. He had noticed small insects fixed on his skin and large numbers of these same insects on a python and its cage in the zoo. Regarding totheir morphological characteristics they were diagnosed as O. natricis (Geravis, 1844), a snake mite. It is the first report of O. natricis from Iran. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4345101/ /pubmed/25759743 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Parasitology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite
title_full Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite
title_fullStr Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite
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title_short Human Dermatitis Caused by Ophionyssus natricis, a Snake Mite
title_sort human dermatitis caused by ophionyssus natricis, a snake mite
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759743
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