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Pyemotes ventricosus Dermatitis, Southeastern France

2008; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 14; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid1411.080288

1080-6059

P. Del Giudice, V. Blanc-Amrane, Philippe Bahadoran, Éric Caumes, Pierre Marty, M. Lazăr, C. Boissy, François Desruelles, Arezki Izri, Jean-Paul Ortonne, E. Counillon, O. Chosidow, Pascal Delaunay,

Nematode management and characterization studies

Abstract We investigated 42 patients who had unusual pruritic dermatitis associated with a specific clinical sign (comet sign) in 23 houses in southeastern France from May through September 2007. Pyemotes ventricosus, a parasite of the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, was the cause of this condition.