... to Demodex , a microscopic commensal organism that resides in or near hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Although Demodex is known to be a host-specific, obligate commensal organism, it is currently difficult to be cultured in vitro to parasitize and infect other animal hosts. Therefore, direct evidence...

...Jiahua Li; Erdong Wei; Amin Reisinger; Lars Einar French; Benjamin M. Clanner-Engelshofen; Markus Reinholz Background: Demodex mites are related to some inflammatory diseases such as rosacea and blepharitis and could be harmful in patients with immunodeficiency or immunosuppression, especially...

... histologically at the light or electron microscopic level. Many types of analyses may be performed; microbial density, lipid components (acne), mite population (Demodex), hair retention (trichostasis), penetration of topical drugs and chemicals, localization of enzymes, etc. The follicular biopsy is useful...

...C. Aquilina; R. Viraben; S. Sire We report the case of a 56-year-old HIV-seropositive man who presented a facial Demodex infection developed 2 months after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The Demodex infection was confirmed by scrapings and histopathologic examination...

... and histological findings. Patients were randomly assigned into permethrin (n = 23), metronidazole (n = 20) and placebo (n = 20) groups. Scores of erythema, telangiectasia, edema and rhinophyma and the numbers of papules, pustules, inflammatory nodules and Demodex folliculorum were determined. Twenty-three...