title: Pyemotes ventricosus dermatitis, southeastern France.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Maladies Infectieuses et Dermatologie, Hôpital Bonnet, Fréjus, France. del-giudice-p@chi-frejus-saint-raphael.fr
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Del Giudice
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Blanc-Amrane
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bahadoran
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caumes
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marty
authors.forename: Mariléna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazar
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boissy
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Desruelles
authors.forename: Arezki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Izri
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ortonne
authors.forename: Evelyne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Counillon
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Chosidow
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Delaunay
mesh_terms: 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