Demodex blepharitis is a common ophthalmologic disease that is often overlooked in the
workup of blepharitis. Demodex infestation occurs in both symptomatic and asymptomatic …

Demodex is the most common parasite living on humans and yet little is understood about
its pathogenicity with respect to the ocular surface. An increasing interest in Demodex over …

Background: Demodex is a genus of mites living predominantly in mammalian
pilosebaceous units. They are commonly detected in the skin of face, with increasing …

Results: Demodex sp. infection was revealed in 47% of patients (487 women and 216 men).
We determined the following rates of infection by age groups: 1–25 (8% of infected …

Microscopic mites of the genus Demodex live within the hair follicles of mammals and are
ubiquitous symbionts of humans, but little molecular work has been done to understand their …

AIM To determine the prevalence of ocular demodicosis by both microscopic examination
and molecular detection among patients at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai …

Classification of Demodex mites has long depended on hosts and morphological
characteristics. However, the fact that two species coexist in the same host and phenotype is …

Traditional classification of Demodex mites by hosts and phenotypic characteristics is
defective because of environmental influences. In this study, we proposed molecular …

The DNA barcode has been widely used in species identification and phylogenetic analysis
since 2003, but there have been no reports in Demodex. In this study, to obtain an …

The study of cryptic species allows to describe and to understand biodiversity, and the
evolutionary processes shaping it. Mites of the family Rhinonyssidae are permanent …