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At 250-300 microns(smaller than the period at the end of this sentence), dustmites are so small that bacteria and fungal hyphae can be a mouthful. We shed skin and hair, bacteria eat skin and hair,and mites devour bacteria. www4.ncsu.edu/~rrdunn/DustMiteArticle(Dunn).pdf

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Adult house dust mites have a globular shape and are white. They are about 420 microns in length, males are 245 microns wide and females are 320 microns wide.

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