title: Reducing house-dust mites by vacuuming.
abstract: Two types of nozzles were compared for efficiency in extracting dust and house-dust mites from textile floor-coverings. From 21 homes, 2 m2 from the wall-to-wall floor-covering in the bedrooms were vacuumed. On 1-m2 the non-motorized nozzle was used, on the other 1-m2 a motorized nozzle was used. Before this sampling both test surfaces were vacuumed using the non-motorized nozzle in order to assess the mite numbers at the beginning of the experiment. The motorized nozzle appeared to be significantly more effective in extracting dust; however, for the mites no such difference could be noted.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Experimental Entomology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Wassenaar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004391:Dust; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D005260:Female; D005430:Floors and Floorcoverings; D006796:Household Work; D006798:Housing; D008297:Male; D008925:Mites
chemical_list: D004391:Dust