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Pet hamsters as a source of rat mite dermatitis
Naomi B Creel1, Mark A Crowe, Gary R Mullen
1National Capital Consortium Dermatology Residency Program, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307, USA. naomi.creel@na.amedd.army.mil
Cutis
|July 4, 2003
Abstract:
Rat mite dermatitis is characterized by pruritic papules in a patient exposed to the tropical rat mite Ornithonyssus bacoti. We report a case of a woman with rat mite dermatitis who developed this eruption after exposure to her pet hamster. Mites were collected from the hamster and identified as O bacoti. Reported sources of rat mites, as well as avian mites and other mites that bite humans, are reviewed.