We investigated 42 patients who had unusual pruritic dermatitis associated with a specific clinical sign (comet sign) in 23 houses in southeastern France from May through September 2007.
Pyemotes ventricosus,
a parasite of the furniture beetle
Anobium punctatum,
was the cause of this condition.
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