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Am. J. Trop. Med., s1-27(4), 1947, pp. 463-469
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Observations on the Laboratory Care, Life Cycle, and Hosts of the Chicken Mite, Dermanyssus Gallinae1,2,

Charles L. Wisseman, Jr. AND S. Edward Sulkin
From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology and Virus Research Laboratory, Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, Texas

1. Methods for collecting, feeding, storing, and manipulating the mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, have been discussed.
2. The life cycle is reviewed with the aid of photomicrographs.
3. Experimental data on the ability of a variety of animals to serve as hosts for the chicken mite is presented.
4. The question of these mites attacking man is discussed.


1 For the morphology and systematic classification of D. gallinae the reader is referred to EWING (1922, 1929), and Banks (1915).


2 This work was supported by a grant from the Rose Lampert Graff Foundation, Los Angeles, California.






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