Should the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae be of wider concern for veterinary and medical science?

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Bacterial and viral pathogens ‘associated’ (see table) with Dermanyssus gallinae

	Pathogen	Association	Related references
Bacteria	Salmonella gallinarum	Isolated from mites	[40]
	Pasteurella multocida	Transmission demonstrated	[41]
	Erysipelthrix rhusiopathiae	Isolated from mites	[42]
	Listeria monocytogenes	Isolated from mites	[43]
	Coxiella burnetii	Transmission demonstrated	[44]
	Nocardia brasiliensis	Isolated from mites	[19]
	Mycoplasma synoviae	Isolated from mites	[20]
Viruses	Newcastle disease	Isolated from mites	[45]
	Fowlpox virus	Transmission demonstrated	[46,47]
	St. Louis encephalitis	Isolated from mites	[48-50]
	Tick bourne encephalitis	Isolated from mites	[51]
	Eastern equine encephalitis	Transmission demonstrated	[52]
	Western equine encephalitis	Transmission demonstrated	[53]
	Venezualan equine encephalitis	Transmission demonstrated	[54]

Table based on information originally published by Valiente Moro et al. [18,55] and updated with data from Chu et al. [20].

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