Allergy to house dust mites (HDM) is a perennial respiratory disease that affect more than
half a billion people worldwide. Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and D. farinae, two HDM …

Allergen-specific immunotherapy is used to treat patients exposed and co-sensitized to the
two common house dust mites, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides …

House dust mites are a major source of allergy worldwide. While diagnosis and treatment
based on mite extracts have remarkably advanced, little information exists on the expression …

The digestive physiology of house dust mites (HDM) is of interest to understand their
allergenicity towards humans since many of their allergens are digestive enzymes and/or …

Background: Various allergens play a role in the elicitation or exacerbation of eczematous
skin lesions in atopic dermatitis (AD), and much research effort has been focused on …

Products manufactured from mass‐cultured house dust mites, currently commercialized for
the diagnosis and immunotherapy of allergy, are heterogeneous in terms of allergen …

The identification of allergy‐causing mites is conventionally based on morphological
characters. However, molecular taxonomy using ribosomal DNA (rDNA) may be particularly …

The occurrence of Suidasia medanensis (= S. pontifica) mites in Malaysian house dust was
first reported in 1984. The taxonomy of this storage mite is, however, quite confusing …

Background Diagnosis and immunotherapy of allergy against mites is based on complex
extracts from large‐scale cultures. However, the analysis of their composition using specific …

Objective The aim was to identify and differentiate different species of house dust mites
(HDMs) from dust samples from different areas in Menoufia Governorate, with preparation of …