“…Various skin diseases have been described in these animals, including neoplasms, and bacterial and viral infections (JENKINS, 2001) as well as zoonoses, particularly dermatophytosis caused by the fungi Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Microsporum canis (RODRIGUEZ-TOREES et al, 1992;CAFARCHIA et al, 2010). However these animals may suffer from several types of dermatoses caused by species of the Acari and Insecta classes (HOPPMANN;BARRON, 2007), such as Cheyletiella parasitovorax, Psoroptes cuniculi and Leporacarus gibbus (SANTOS et al, 2017). Dermatitis in humans, associated with L. gibbus, has been described in some studies (BURNS, 1987;D'OVIDIO;SANTORO, 2014), and there is a significant risk of humans and other animals being exposed to skin mites from newly adopted rabbits (KIM et al, 2008).…”