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What (who) is itch mite - definition

SPECIES OF PARASITIC ACARI
Scabies mite; Itch mite
  • Human scabies mite seen under an optical microscope (x20)
  •  Video of the ''S. scabiei'' mite
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itch mite         
¦ noun a parasitic mite which burrows under the skin, causing scabies or (in animals) sarcoptic mange. [Sarcoptes scabiei.]
Sarcoptes scabiei         
Sarcoptes scabiei or the itch mite is a parasitic mite (an arthropod) that burrows into skin and causes scabies. The mite is found in all parts of the world.
Grain itch         
SKIN CONDITION CAUSED BY MITES
Barley itch; Mattress itch; Prairie itch; Straw itch; Grain mites; Harvest itch; Cheyletus eruditus; Tyrophagus neiswanderi
Grain itch is a cutaneous condition caused by several types of mites, and characterized by intense pruritus.

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Sarcoptes scabiei

Sarcoptes scabiei or the itch mite is a parasitic mite that burrows into skin and causes scabies. The mite is found in all parts of the world. Humans are not the only mammals that can become infected. Other mammals, such as wild and domesticated dogs and cats (in which it is one cause of mange) as well as ungulates, wild boars, bovids, wombats, koalas, and great apes are affected.

The Italian biologists Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo and Diacinto Cestoni showed in the 17th century that scabies is caused by Sarcoptes scabiei; this discovery of the itch mite in 1687 marked scabies as the first disease of humans with a known microscopic causative agent. The disease produces intense, itchy skin rashes when the impregnated female tunnels into the stratum corneum of the skin and deposits eggs in the burrow. The larvae, which hatch in three to 10 days, move about on the skin, moult into a nymphal stage, and then mature into adult mites. The adult mites live three to four weeks in the host's skin.