Mites living on hissing cockroach may harbour allergy cure.

Asian News International | April 30, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: ANI

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): A new research has revealed how tiny mites living on the surface of cockroaches may prove to be advantageous to humans with allergies.

Mites, who thrive on the surface of Madagascar hissing cockroaches help decrease the presence of a variety of moulds on the cockroaches' bodies, which in turn reduces allergic responses among humans who handle the popular insects.

For the study, the researchers cultured and identified fungi on the cockroaches' body surfaces with and without mites and discovered that the ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Safari park success as risk to rare deer breed averted.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) ; ...missionary and explorer, Pere Armand David - hence the...1894 killed many of the deer and the rest were killed...home country, just 18 deer were left in zoos in Europe...intervening decades the Pere Davids' have bred very successfully...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Mites living on hissing cockroach may harbour ..."