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A survey on pulmonary acariasis was carried out in the grain store and in the Chinese medicinal herb plant. Of 363 persons examined, 92(25.3%) were mites-positive in their sputum. 65 of them had symptoms and signs attributed to pulmonary acariasis, the incidence being 17.9%. The main clinical manifestations were productive cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, dyspnea asthma and marked eosinophilia. Roentgenogram of these cases revealed widening hilum shadow, increased and disordered lung markings, multiple cloudy shadow and nodular opacities ranging from 1-5mm in diameter scattered throughout the lower field of lungs. All the patients were treated with three courses of metronidazole. In each course a daily dose of 0.6g (0.2g tid) or 0.8g (0.4g bid) was given orally for seven days with an interval of 7-10 days between two courses. After three courses, the clinical manifestations and radiographic findings were much improved in most cases, eosinophilia dropped to normal limit, mites disappeared from sputum in 94.4% of patients. All these showed that metronidazole is rather effective in treating pulmonary acariasis.
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PMID:[Clinical manifestation and treatment of pulmonary acariasis]. 209 4

924 subjects, 542 males and 382 females working in grainstoring, or herb-storing, from different parts of Anhui Province were examined for the possible existence of pulmonary acariasis. 49 cases(5.3%), 31 males and 18 females, were found positive for mites in their sputum. 83.7% of the sufferers aged 16-45. 22 out of the 22 out of the 49 sufferers developed a marked eosinophilia ranging from 4% to 48% and a count of 320-5,050/mm3, whereas X-ray films revealed varied degrees of widening lung hilum shadow with increased and disordered lung markings. In some cases, the chest-film showed a lot of scattered nodular shadows 1-5 mm in diameter in the lung lobes. The symptoms presented were cough, expectoration, depression in the chest, restlessness, low fever, asthma, hemoptysis, etc. 10 species of mites were found in the sputum of the 49 sufferers, i.e. Acarus siro, Tyrophagus putreseltiae, Aleuroglyphus ovatus, Caloglyphus berlesei, C. myoophagus, Dermatophagoides farinae, D. pteronyssinus, Euroglyphus maynei, Tarsonemus granarius, Cheyletus eruditus.
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PMID:[Human pulmonary ascariasis in Anhui Province: an epidemiological survey]. 236 4