title: Gohieria fusca (Acari: Astigmata) found in the filter dusts of air conditioners in China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Gohieria fusca(Oudemans, 1902) is recognized to breed in wheat flour, rice, corn, feeds, wheat bran and herbal medicines as well as other stored products, and capable of having mild to moderate cross reactivity with allergens of house dust mites, an important source of indoor allergens associated with asthma and other allergic conditions. Air-conditioning systems are indispensable in public and civil buildings, and the screens of the air conditioners are the most places to accumulate dusts. In order to investigate whether Gohieria fusca can breed in the screens of air-conditioners equipped at either public spaces or civil dwellings in Wuhu city, Anhui province, China.
  
  
  METHODS
  We collected 430 dust samples from the filters of air-conditioning systems at the school cafeteria, marketplaces, hotels and civil buildings between June and September of 2013, and isolated Gohieria fusca from the previous samples.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results suggested that Gohieria fusca was present in 98 of the 430 samples (22.79%), and the breeding rate was significant in the air-conditioning filters from different spaces (c2=18.294, P.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Medicine, Anhui University of Science & Technology, Huainan 232001, Anhui, China. Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Wannan Medical University, Wuhu 241002, Anhui, China.. cpli001@126.com.
authors.forename: Chaopin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Wannan Medical University, Wuhu 241002, Anhui, China..
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhan
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Wannan Medical University, Wuhu 241002, Anhui, China..
authors.forename: Jinhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Parasitology, School of Basic Medicine, Wannan Medical University, Wuhu 241002, Anhui, China..
authors.forename: Guo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D000053:Acari; D000389:Air Conditioning; D000485:Allergens / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D005374:Filtration; D015995:Prevalence
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens; D004391:Dust