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Occupational otitis externa in chicken catchers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Anne Rossiter
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
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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.

Keywords

Otitis externaOccupational diseases
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 111 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. 366 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1997

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