Millions of people experience some discomforting itchiness in their eyelashes at some point in their lives, especially when ...

Lately, optometrists have noticed a rise in the number of patients dealing with infestations of tiny mites, known as Demodex, ...

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces? At night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle ...

Clinical and in vitro resistance to ivermectin has now been documented and there are concerns regarding the increasing tolerance of scabies mites to permethrin. There is an urgent need to define ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of the face. In fact, humans are the only habitat for ...

From microscopic mites dwelling in our hair follicles to sizable tapeworms inhabiting our intestines, the human body plays host to a surprising array of organisms. Some, like Demodex mites ...

An important consideration is that crusted scabies patients are often identified as core transmitters of scabies to others in the community, and therefore the spread of ivermectin resistant mites ...