| a synthetic review of notoedres species mites and mange. | notoedric mange, caused by obligately parasitic sarcoptiform notoedres mites, is associated with potentially fatal dermatitis with secondary systemic disease in small mammals, felids and procyonids among others, as well as an occasional zoonosis. we describe clinical spectra in non-chiropteran hosts, review risk factors and summarize ecological and epidemiological studies. the genus is disproportionately represented on rodents. disease in felids and procyonids ranges from very mild to death. kno ... | 2016 | 27608857 |
| pathologic findings in western gray squirrels (sciurus griseus) from a notoedric mange epidemic in the san bernardino mountains, california. | notoedric mange, caused by the contagious, burrowing mite notoedres centrifera, has been associated with several large-scale population declines of western gray squirrels (sciurus griseus) and has been a significant obstacle to population recovery in washington state where the species is listed as threatened. in 2009, residents and wildlife rehabilitators in the isolated san bernardino mountains of southern california reported a dramatic die-off of western gray squirrels, in what had been a prev ... | 2013 | 24533345 |
| notoedric mange in western gray squirrels from washington. | from february 1998 to july 1999, 65 western gray squirrels (sciurus griseus griseus) were trapped at three sites in klickitat county, washington (usa) as part of a home range and habitat use study. no squirrels (0/9) with mange lesions were identified in the initial trapping session (february and march 1998). during all subsequent trapping sessions (august 1998 through july 1999), squirrels with lesions consistent with notoedric mange, caused by the mite notoedres centrifera (douglasi), were cap ... | 2001 | 11504240 |