Concept information
Preferred term
Trombiculidae
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Bug, Red
- Bugs, Red
- Chigger
- Chiggers
- Harvest Mite
- Harvest Mites
- Mite, Harvest
- Mites, Harvest
- Mites, Trombiculid
- Mite, Trombiculid
- Red Bug
- Red Bugs
- Trombiculid Mite
- Trombiculid Mites
Note
- infection = TROMBICULIASIS
Scope note
- Family of MITES in the superfamily Trombiculoidea, suborder Prostigmata, which attack humans and other vertebrates, causing DERMATITIS and severe allergic reactions. Chiggers, red bugs, and harvest mites commonly refer to the larval stage of Trombiculid mites, the only parasitic stage of the mite's life cycle.
History note
- 91(75); was see under MITES 1975-90
In other languages
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Finnish
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Swedish
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Chigger
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Klådkvalster
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Neotrombicula
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Trombicula
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014324
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