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Published on: December 15, 2011
First description of a new species of Demodex (Acari: Demodecidae) from rhesus monkey
Zuzana Karjala1, Clifford E Desch, Matthew F Starost
1National Institutes of Health, Division of Veterinary Resources, Health Surveillance, Parasitology, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Abstract:
Species of Demodex live in hair follicles and sebaceous glands of many species of mammals. Demodex macaci n .sp. is described (all life stages) from a captive rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann, 1780). Mites were found at all levels of the hair follicles and occasionally in sebaceous glands of the skin of the perineal region. This is the first description of a demodectic hair follicle mite from the primate family Cercopithecidae.

