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Occupational otitis externa in chicken catchers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Anne Rossiter*
Affiliation:
Department of Occupational Health, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree), Exeter, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Anne Rossiter, Department of Occupational Health, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Heavitree), 11 Gladstone Road, Exeter EX1 2EH. Fax: 01392 405063

Abstract

Otitis externa is only occasionally occupational in origin and infestations of the ear are even less common. Two cases of occupational otitis externa due to infestation with Dermanyssus gallinae, the red poultry mite, are reported occurring in poultry workers.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1997

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