title: First case of intestinal acariasis from Egypt.
abstract: We are hereby reporting a case where the eggs and adults of the mold mites; Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Shrank) and the trophozoites of Blastocystis sp. were found in stool of three years old child from Minia City, Egypt. Intestinal mite infection was diagnosed after repeated identification of mite' stages from six consecutive stool samples to exclude the possibilities of contamination and spurious infection. The patient was suffering from severe colicky abdominal pain and burning sensation around the anus one month ago. All other members of his family were having the same acarine in their feces, but were all symptomless. The patient was treated with ivermectin 200 µg/kg body weight once every 10 days for three doses. His cure indicated that he was having asymptomatic blastocystosis.
authors.affiliation: Medical Parasitology Departments, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
authors.forename: Refaat M A
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Khalifa
authors.affiliation: Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
authors.forename: Manal Z M
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Abdellatif
authors.affiliation: Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
authors.forename: Azza K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.affiliation: Medical Parasitology Departments, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
authors.forename: Doaa A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Yones
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
authors.forename: Abdel-Azeem M
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: El-Mazary
authors.affiliation: Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
authors.forename: Lamia H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Aly
authors.affiliation: Parasitology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafr Elsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mahmoud A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: El-Seify
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
authors.forename: Moustafa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Haridi
keywords: Blastocystis sp.; Intestinal infection; Mite; Tyrophagus putrescentiae; Young boy