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Line 1: {{short description\|Parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease caused by mites}} {{distinguish\|text=[[ascariasis]], an intestinal parasitic worm infection}} {{Lead too short\|date=December 2024}} {{More medical citations needed\|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox medical condition (new) Line 67 ⟶ 68: ** Another candidate is ''[[Androlaelaps casalis]]''. However, based on this mite's life style as a predator on other mite species (such as the previously mentioned ''Dermanyssus gallinae''),<ref>{{cite journal \|pages=63–80 \|doi=10.1007/s10493-009-9239-1 \|title=Candidate predators for biological control of the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae \|year=2009 \|last1=Lesna \|first1=Izabela \|last2=Wolfs \|first2=Peter \|last3=Faraji \|first3=Farid \|last4=Roy \|first4=Lise \|last5=Komdeur \|first5=Jan \|last6=Sabelis \|first6=Maurice W. \|journal=Experimental and Applied Acarology \|volume=48 \|pmid=19184469 \|issue=1–2\|s2cid=19319704 }}</ref> it is highly unlikely to be a cause of acariasis. Some of these reflect reports existing of human infestation by mites previously believed not to prey on humans.<ref>[~~http~~https://www.birdmites.org/research.html "Research and Reference Articles"] <!--accessed June 7, 2008--></ref>{{unreliable source?\|date=May 2011}} ==Diagnosis== Medical doctors and dermatologists can still misdiagnose this rash as many are unfamiliar with parasitism, not trained in it, or if they do consider it, cannot see the mites.{{citation needed\|date=June 2021}} Different methods for detection are recognized for different acariasis infections. Human acariasis with mites can occur in the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, urinary tracts and other organs which not have been well-studied. For intestinal acariasis, symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and hematochezia have been reported. Diagnosis of intestinal acariasis is confirmed by the detection of mites in stools, which ~~then will~~must be microscopically examined to confirm the specific species of mite causing the infestation. <ref>{{cite journal \|pmid=17120963 \|year=2006 \|last1=Cui \|first1=YB \|last2=Ling \|first2=YZ \|last3=Zhou \|first3=Y \|last4=Feng \|first4=ZW \|last5=Xing \|first5=YR \|last6=Zhang \|first6=SW \|title=An effective indirect fluorescent antibody test for diagnosis of intestinal acariasis \|volume=37 \|issue=3 \|pages=452–55 \|journal=The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health}}</ref> For pulmonary acariasis, the presence of mites in sputum is determined by identifying the presence and number of mites in the sputum of patients with respiratory symptoms. Both physical and chemical methods for liquefaction of sputum have been developed.<ref>{{cite journal \|pages=55–59 \|doi=10.1007/s10493-007-9076-z \|title=Experimental method for isolating and identifying dust mites from sputum in pulmonary acariasis \|year=2007 \|last1=Martínez-Girón \|first1=Rafael \|last2=Woerden \|first2=Hugo Cornelis \|last3=Ribas-Barceló \|first3=Andrés \|journal=Experimental and Applied Acarology \|volume=42 \|pmid=17549588 \|issue=1\|s2cid=19663480 }}</ref> ==References==