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Created page with 'thumb|right|150px|''Knemidocoptes'' Mite under Light microscope (Courtesy of C. Antonczyk) [[Image:Clinical Case 2 01.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Chick…'
[[Image:Clinical Case 2 03.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Knemidocoptes'' Mite under Light microscope (Courtesy of C. Antonczyk)]]
[[Image:Clinical Case 2 01.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Chicken with Scaly Leg (Courtesy of C. Antonczyk)]]
*Only genus of burrowing mites which occurs on avian species
*Life cycle similar to ''Sarcoptes spp.''
*Diagnosis based on
**Clinical signs
**Discovery of mites
*Repeat treatments with [[Ectoparasiticides|acaricides]] needed
**Few products licensed for use in poultry
'''Recognition'''
*Small, round mite
*Short legs
*U-shaped chitinous bar behind head
*Terminal anus
*''K. mutans''
**Scaly leg in poultry
**Mites burrow beneath leg scales causing them to loosen and rise
**Ragged appearance to legs and feet
**Distorted claws and feet
**Infected birds are usually lame
*''K. gallinae''
**Depluming itch in poultry
**Burrow into feather shafts
**Intense pain and pruritus
**Birds pull out body feathers
*''K. pilae''
**Scaly face and beak in psittacines
**Mites attack bare or lightly feathered areas of the face, beak, cere and body
**Scaliness at the base of the beak is the first sign which then spreads
**Little pruritus
[[Category:Parasites]][[Category:Mites]][[Category:Poultry]]
[[Image:Clinical Case 2 01.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Chicken with Scaly Leg (Courtesy of C. Antonczyk)]]
*Only genus of burrowing mites which occurs on avian species
*Life cycle similar to ''Sarcoptes spp.''
*Diagnosis based on
**Clinical signs
**Discovery of mites
*Repeat treatments with [[Ectoparasiticides|acaricides]] needed
**Few products licensed for use in poultry
'''Recognition'''
*Small, round mite
*Short legs
*U-shaped chitinous bar behind head
*Terminal anus
*''K. mutans''
**Scaly leg in poultry
**Mites burrow beneath leg scales causing them to loosen and rise
**Ragged appearance to legs and feet
**Distorted claws and feet
**Infected birds are usually lame
*''K. gallinae''
**Depluming itch in poultry
**Burrow into feather shafts
**Intense pain and pruritus
**Birds pull out body feathers
*''K. pilae''
**Scaly face and beak in psittacines
**Mites attack bare or lightly feathered areas of the face, beak, cere and body
**Scaliness at the base of the beak is the first sign which then spreads
**Little pruritus
[[Category:Parasites]][[Category:Mites]][[Category:Poultry]]