Anthrax mite

The anthrax - mite ( Sarcoptes anthracis ) is the causative agent of a skin disease in cloven-hoofed animals.

The anthrax - mite was first discovered in 1900 in an Asian Schopf deer females and described a year later by Dmitry Ivanovsky and classified. The part belonging to the genus of parasitic mites representative is about 235 microns long, up to 210 microns wide and is almost exclusively found on artiodactyls. Like all grave mites also live these representatives under the epidermis of their hosts and lay their eggs in specially created Bohrgänge. Transfer your descendants the Bacillus anthracis in the host organism, which lives in the digestive tract of the mites, but develops no negative effects on the spiders themselves. Mites infest a higher percentage of weakened animals and cause deterioration of the immune status of the host, which then still supervening infection with anthrax results in almost all cases the death of the Wirtsorgamismus. Because of the relatively high host specificity only a few transmissions of the disease by anthrax mites in other animal species are known so far except for the even-toed ungulates, however, by the toxicity of the spores, the infection of farm animals in Russia is a notifiable disease. In the late 1950s occurred in America several cases of anthrax mites in Canadian reindeer - breeding farms on, but since then no major foci of infection have become more known.