| 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 |
| seasonal variation of infestation rate with lice, tick and mite among rodents in certain egyptian regions. | four species of mites (ornithonyssus bacoti, haemolaelaps glusgowi, echinolaelaps echinolelaps & dermanyssus gallinae), two species of ticks (rhipicephalus sanguineus & hyalomma dromedarrii) and one species of lice (polyplax spinulose) were identified on rodents during 4 successive seasons (2005) trapped in five governorates (suez, menoufia, giza, damietta and beni-sewaf). the rodents were rattus norvegicus, rattus rattus alexandrinus, rattus rattus frugivourus, acomys cahirinus and mus musculus ... | 2009 | 19795768 |