Pyemotes ventricosus dermatitis, southeastern France.
We investigated 42 patients who had unusual pruritic dermatitis associated with a specific clinical sign (comet sign) in 23 houses in southeastern France from May through September 2007. Pyemotes ventricosus, a parasite of the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, was the cause of this condition.
Del Giudice
Pascal
P
Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Dermatologie, Hôpital Bonnet, Fréjus, France. del-giudice-p@chi-frejus-saint-raphael.fr
Blanc-Amrane
Véronique
V
Bahadoran
Philippe
P
Caumes
Eric
E
Marty
Pierre
P
Lazar
Mariléna
M
Boissy
Christian
C
Desruelles
François
F
Izri
Arezki
A
Ortonne
Jean-Paul
JP
Counillon
Evelyne
E
Chosidow
Olivier
O
Delaunay
Pascal
P
D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D003872:Dermatitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008018:Life Cycle Stages; D008925:Mites; D011537:Pruritus / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D012621:Seasons