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Microscopic Facial/Skin Mites. Looking For Name?

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yorgle7@yahoo.com - 06 Jul 2005 14:46 GMT
The other day I was watching a program on the Discovery channel about
bugs that invade our space. At one point, the host scraped his face to
get a skin sample, and they placed the sample under a microscope. After
a little searching, they found some sort of mite, and I'm trying to
find the name. When I search on the internet I mainly come up with
Scabies, but I don't think that that is what it was. It was shaped more
like a hotdog, while the Scabies mite appears to be round. It's also a
lot smaller than the Scabies mite, not being visible without a
microscope. Anyone know the name of this mite? Thanks in advance.
kerry - 06 Jul 2005 17:07 GMT

I hope this link is helpful

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2101.html

Kerry

> The other day I was watching a program on the Discovery channel about
> bugs that invade our space. At one point, the host scraped his face to
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> lot smaller than the Scabies mite, not being visible without a
> microscope. Anyone know the name of this mite? Thanks in advance.
kerry - 06 Jul 2005 17:13 GMT

Did it look like this?

http://www.microscopix.co.uk/demodex/

Kerry

> The other day I was watching a program on the Discovery channel about
> bugs that invade our space. At one point, the host scraped his face to
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> lot smaller than the Scabies mite, not being visible without a
> microscope. Anyone know the name of this mite? Thanks in advance.
 
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