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Psoroptes

Psoroptes

(sō-rop'tēz),
A genus of itch or mange mites (family Cheyletidae), including the species Psoroptes cuniculi (the scab mite of rabbits), Psoroptes equi (the mange or body mite of horses), and Psoroptes ovis (the common scab mite of sheep and cattle).
[G. psōra, itch]
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the scab mite Psoroptes cuniculi (Arthropoda: Arachnida) provides insights into Acari phylogeny.
Otros autores, evaluando cepas de Bt sobre el acaro Psoroptes cuniculi (ectoparasito obligado de conejos, cabras, caballos, vacas y ovejas), descubrieron alteraciones histologicas (7).
[20] y Pessoa y col.[19] informaron prevalencias de 0,6; 0,3 y 0,2% de dermatitis ectoparasitaria por sarna (Psoroptes equi, Sarcoptes equi) y piojos (Damalinia equi) en caballos de Rio Grande do Sul y del Semiarido Brasilero, respectivamente.
Quantitative PCR-based genome size estimation of the astigmatid mites Sarcoptes scabiei, Psoroptes ovis and Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus.
Caused by the mite Psoroptes ovis, scab is one of the most contagious parasites of sheep.
The monoterpenes have a good acaricides against Psoroptes cuniculi (Perrucci et al.
Psoroptic scabies is caused by a mite (Psoroptes sp., Asghar et al., 2011; but, see Zahler et al.
canis of fleas; Haematopinus eurysternus, Damalinia bovis and Linognathus vituli of lice; Psoroptes bovis and Sarcoptes scabei of mites; and Stomoxys calcitrans of flies.
THE cause of sheep scab is the nonburrowing mite Psoroptes ovis, which at approximately 1mm in length is just visible to the naked eye.
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