Mites demonstrated to transmit Lyme & Bartonella. & an interesting pesticide/fungicide?

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 It seems to be quite well known that red bird mites & northern fowl mites transmit Borrelia anserina aka avian spirochaetosis among birds.  In this paper (see link) rodent mites Ornithonyssus bacoti (closely related to Ornithonyssus sylvarium, the Northern Fowl Mite) are demonstrated to be able to transmit Lyme ( Borrelia burgdorferi s.l

) to white lab mice. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10703202There was also a paper where Apodemus flavicolis (Yellow Necked Field Mouse) were found to be carrying Lyme, carried by mites.

One probably can infer from these that there must be a distinct possibility of mites of the same genus could also transmit Borrelia.This letter in the latest edition of " Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal "   talks of Dermanyssus sp transmitting Bartonella to humans. Interesting?

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/1/pdfs/11-0186.pdfReally I set off looking for pesticides to kill eggs! Also while doing that I spotted this pesticide which looks interesting. Might as well read it here as have me write about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LufenuronAs this inhibits the production of chitin it would seem logical to suppose it would be effective against mites & also, for the same reason, has fungicidal activity. 

Regards,Krys--

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