| mites (acari) infesting commensal rats in suez canal zone, egypt. | mites are arthropods distinguished from ticks by usually being microscopical in size and have a hypostome unarmed with tooth-like anchoring processes. they are group in a number of suborders, each with super-families and families including many genera of medical and economic importance. in this paper, commensal rodents (rattus norvegicus, r. r. alexandrinus and r. r. frugivorous) were surveyed in the suez canal zone for their acari ectoparasites. four species of mites were recovered. in a descen ... | 1995 | 7665937 |