Clinical significance of mites in urine.
We report a case where a mite egg found in urine caused diagnostic confusion. The possibility of gut or bladder mite infection should be entertained only after repeated identification of mites in urine or stool samples from a symptomatic patient with no other cause for the symptoms and where the possibilities of contamination and spurious infection have been excluded.
Dini
Leigh A
LA
Parasitology Reference Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Private Bag X4, Sandringham 2131, South Africa. leighd@nicd.ac.za
Frean
John A
JA
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008925:Mites / Q000254:growth & development*; D010063:Ovum / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014556:Urine / Q000469:parasitology*