ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2011
Effect of sampling strategy on the detection of fur mites within a naturally infested colony of mice (Mus musculus).
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- Safety and efficacy of topical lime sulfur in mice infested with Myocoptes musculinus.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2013Trial
- Evaluating a Reduction in Treatment Duration of Ivermectin Diet for Fur Mite (Comparative medicine · 2024Article
- PCR and RT-PCR in the Diagnosis of Laboratory Animal Infections and in Health Monitoring.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2020Article
- Comparison of Diagnostic Methods and Sampling Sites for the Detection of Demodex musculi.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2018Article
- Ectoparasite Burden, Clinical Disease, and Immune Responses throughout Fur Mite (Myocoptes musculinus) Infestation in C57BL/6 and Rag1(-/-) Mice.Comparative medicine · 2016Article
- Combined evaluation of commonly used techniques, including PCR, for diagnosis of mouse fur mites.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2014Article
- Evaluation of diagnostic methods for Myocoptes musculinus according to age and treatment status of mice (Mus musculus).Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2013Article
- PCR testing of a ventilated caging system to detect murine fur mites.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2013Article
- Total IgE as a serodiagnostic marker to aid murine fur mite detection.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2012Article
- Comparison of a fur mite PCR assay and the tape test for initial and posttreatment diagnosis during a natural infection.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2012Article
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Abstract
Fur mites are one of the most common ectoparasites of laboratory mice and traditionally are diagnosed through surveillance of individual colony animals. Although multiple diagnostic modalities exist, few recommendations suggest optimal testing methods, target colony populations, or sampling sites. We compared the fur pluck and sticky paper techniques for the diagnosis of Myocoptes musculinus in naturally infested immunocompetent mice and evaluated the effect of mouse age and sampling site on the efficacy of fur plucks. We found that the sticky paper technique was more likely to detect fur mites than were fur plucks. Housing mice individually increased the incidence of false-negative fur pluck tests, whereas sensitivity was equivalent for preweanling and adult mice. The ventral abdomen was the most likely single sampling location to detect evidence of any stage of Myocoptes musculinus, but fur mite eggs were overrepresented on the neck. We found that the surface temperature of the murine neck surface was warmer than was the rump and therefore may represent a unique microenvironment for fur mite egg development. Given our findings, we recommend that group-housed adult or preweanling mice should be selected for Myocoptes musculinus evaluation and that the ventral abdomen should be sampled. When possible, the postmortem sticky paper technique should be used rather than the antemortem fur pluck method.
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